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Sars from East to West
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Artikel-Nr:
9780739147559
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.11.2011
Seiten:
270
Autor:
Eva-Karin Olsson
Gewicht:
540 g
Format:
231x155x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Eva-Karin Olsson is senior analyst at the National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training at Swedish National Defence college.Lan Xue is professor and Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Executive Vice President of the Development Research Academy for the 21st Century, and Director of China Institute for Science and Technology Policy at Tsinghua University.
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.
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