SARS from East to West / edited by Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsson, Eva-Karin, author.

Contributor:

Xue, Lan, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

SARS (Disease).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sars From East To West

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1 SARS: Meeting an Epidemic Head-On

2 SARS in China: An Overview

3 SARS in Beijing: An Urban Response

4 The SARS Crisis and Crisis Management in Hong Kong

5 An Analytical Memoir of the WHO Operation in China

6 Lessons Learned from the Greater Toronto Outbreak

7 The Morality of Quarantine in Ontario, Canada

8 Early International News Flow about SARS: Interconnected or Unconnected?

9 China and SARS: Crisis Management in a Legitimacy Vacuum

10 Transboundary Crisis Management: Implications for Research and Practice

About the Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-31459-2

0-7391-7036-8

OCLC:

950910079