Networked Disease

A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies. Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo-liberalization of state services Provides an important contribution to the global public debate on the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities Examines the impact of globalization on future infectious disease threats on international and local politics and culture Focuses on the ways pathogens interact with economic, political and social factors, ultimately presenting a threat to human development and global cities Employs an interdisciplinary approach to the SARS epidemic, clearly demonstrating the value of social scientific perspectives on the study of modern disease in a globalized world

A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researcherson the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious diseasemanagement in progressively global and urban societies.* Presents original contributions by scholars from sevencountries on four continents* Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, andgovernance in a post-national era of public health regulations andneo-liberalization of state services* Provides an important contribution to the global public debateon the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities* Examines the impact of globalization on future infectiousdisease threats on international and local politics andculture* Focuses on the ways pathogens interact with economic, politicaland social factors, ultimately presenting a threat to humandevelopment and global cities* Employs an interdisciplinary approach to the SARS epidemicclearly demonstrating the value of social scientific perspectiveson the study of modern disease in a globalized world

List of Figures.List of Tables.Notes on Contributors.Series Editors' Preface.Preface.Introduction: Networked Disease (S. Harris Ali and RogerKeil).Part I: Infectious Disease and GlobalizedUrbanization.Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).1 Toward a Dialectical Understanding of Networked Disease in theGlobal City: Vulnerability, Connectivity, Topologies (Estair VanWagner).2 Health and Disease in Global Cities: A Neglected Dimension ofNational Health Policy (Victor G. Rodwin).Part II: SARS and Health Governance in the Global City:Toronto, Hong Kong, and Singapore.Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).3 SARS and the Restructuring of Health Governance in Toronto(Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali).4 Globalization of SARS and Health Governance in Hong Kong under"One Country, Two Systems" (Mee Kam Ng).5 Surveillance in a Globalizing City: Singapore's Battle againstSARS (Peggy Teo, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Shir Nee Ong).Part III: The Cultural Construction of Disease in the GlobalCity.Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).6 The Troubled Public Sphere and Media Coverage of the 2003Toronto SARS Outbreak (Daniel Drache and David Clifton).7 SARS as a "Health Scare" (Claire Hooker).8 City under Siege: Authoritarian Toleration, Mask Culture, andthe SARS Crisis in Hong Kong (Peter Baehr).9 "Racism is a Weapon of Mass Destruction": SARS and the SocialFabric of Urban Multiculturalism (Roger Keil and S. HarrisAli).Part IV: Re-Emerging Infectious Disease, Urban Public Healthand Global Biosecurity.Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).10 Deadly Alliances: Death, Disease, and the Global Politics ofPublic Health (Matthew Gandy).11 Tuberculosis and the Anxieties of Containment (SusanCraddock).12 Networks, Disease, and the Utopian Impulse (Nicholas B.King).13 People, Animals, and Biosecurity in and through Cities(Steve Hinchliffe and Nick Bingham).Part V: Networked Disease: Theoretical Approaches.Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).14 SARS as an Emergent Complex: Toward a Networked Approach toUrban Infectious Disease (S. Harris Ali).15 Thinking the City through SARS: Bodies, Topologies, Politics(Bruce Braun).16 Vapors, Viruses, Resistance(s): The Trace of Infection in theWork of Michel Foucault (Philipp Sarasin).17 Fleshy Traffic, Feverish Borders: Blood, Birds, and CivetCats in Cities Brimming with Intimate Commodities (PaulJackson).Concluding Remarks (Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali).Bibliography.Index.