Description

SARS from East to West is the production of international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed.

Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue bring together crisis management scholars with genuine knowledge of the geographic area covered in each of the chapters to examine the response to the SARS crisis at national and international levels, as well as media analysis.

Table of Contents

1 Acknowledgments
2 Abbreviations
3 1. SARS: Meeting an Epidemic Head-On
4 2. SARS in China: An Overview
5 3. SARS in Beijing: An Urban Response
6 4. SARS in Hong Kong
7 5. An Analytical Memoir of the WHO Operation in China
8 6. SARS in Canada: Lessons to be Learned from the Greater Toronto Outbreak
9 7. SARS and Representations of the Morality of Quarantine in Ontario, Canada
10 8. Early International News Flow about SARS: Interconnected or Unconnected?
11 9. SARS in China: Western European News Coverage of a Pandemic in the East
12 10. Transboundary Crisis Management: Implications for Research and Practice
13 About the Contributors

Product details

Published Nov 09 2011
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 270
ISBN 9798216314592
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Eva-Karin Olsson

Anthology Editor

Lan Xue

Contributor

Logan Atkinson

Contributor

Stephanie Buus

Contributor

Joan Deppa

Contributor

Edward Deverell

Contributor

Dan Markel

Contributor

Andrew Seaberg

Contributor

Simon Shen

Contributor

Eric K. Stern

Contributor

Grace Han Yao

Contributor

Kaibin Zhong

Contributor

Qin Zhu

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