Networked disease : emerging infections in the global city /: emerging infections in the global city. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil.
• Other Names: Ali, S. Harris; Keil, Roger, 1957-
• Contents: SARS and the global city : building a theoretical framework / Estair van Wagner -- Health and disease in global cities : a neglected dimension of national health policy / Victor Rodwin -- SARS and the restructuring of health care governance in Toronto / Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali -- Globalization, SARS and health governance in Honk Kong : one country, two systems / Mee Kam Ng -- Surveillance in a globalizing city : Singapore's battle against SARS / Peggy Teo, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Shir Nee Ong -- The troubled public sphere and media coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS outbreak / Daniel Drache and David Clifton -- SARS as a health scare / Claire Hooker -- City under siege : authoritarian toleration, mask culture, and the SARS crisis in Hong Kong / Peter Baehr -- Racism is a weapon of mass destruction : SARS and the social fabric of multiculturalism / Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali -- Deadly alliances : death, disease, and the global politics of public health / Matthew Gandy -- Tuberculosis and the anxieties of containment / Susan Craddock -- Networks, disease, and the utopian impulse / Nicholas King -- People, animals, and biosecurity in and through cities / Steve Hinchliffe and Nick Bingham -- SARS as an emergent complex : towards a networked approach to urban infectious disease / S. Harris Ali -- Cities, bodies, and space-time : thinking the urban through emerging infectious diseases / Bruce Braun -- Vapours, viruses, resistance(s) : the trace of infection in the work of Michel Foucault / Philipp Sarasin -- Flashy traffic, feverish borders : blood, birds, and civet cats in cities brimming with intimate commodities / Paul Jackson.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Subjects: 362.1962; SARS (Disease) -- Canada -- Toronto; SARS (Disease) -- China -- Hong Kong; SARS (Disease) -- Singapore; Globalization -- Health aspects; Urban health; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -- prevention & control; Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- prevention & control; Internationality; Public Health Practice; Urban Health
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781444399110
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.