The social construction of SARS
Subtitle: studies of a health communication crisis
By: edited by John H. Powers, Xiaosui Xiao.
Contributors: Powers, John H. 1947-; Xiao, Xiaosui.
Series: Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture -- v. 30; Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture -- v. 30.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789027206183
Subjects: SARS (Disease); Communication in public health; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; Communication; Disease Outbreaks; Mass Media
Description: "As an international epidemic, SARS arrived in a number of distinctive societies with the result that different communities handled the crisis in different ways, some far more effectively than others. Accordingly, the 12 chapters in The Social Construction of SARS are studies of how a major health-related crisis was understood and dealt with from a communicative perspective in such diverse places as Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada and the United States during the SARS outbreak."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hong Kong's multiple constructions of SARS / John H. Powers and Gwendolyn Gong; title: A hero story without heroes : the Hong Kong government's narratives on SARS / Xiaosui Xiao; title: "SARS" versus "atypical pneumonia" : inconsistencies in Hong Kong's public health warnings and disease-prevention campaign / Gwendolyn Gong and Sam Dragga; title: Internet press freedom and online crisis reporting : the role of news web sites in the SARS epidemic / Alice Y.L. Lee; title: Party journalism vs. market journalism : the coverage of SARS by People's Daily and Beijing Youth News / Huang Xiaoyan and Hao Xiaoming; title: Construction of nationalism and political legitimacy through rhetoric of the anti-SARS campaign : a fantasy theme analysis / Xing Lu; title: SARS discourse as an anti-SARS ideology : the case of Beijing / Hailong Tian; title: "Triumph over adversity" : Singapore mobilizes Confucian values to combat SARS / Ian Weber, Tan Howe Yang and Law Loo Shien; title: Singapore at war : SARS and its metaphors / Chris Hudson; title: Reporting an emerging epidemic in Taiwan : journalists' experiences of SARS coverage / Mei-Ling Hsu; title: Newspaper coverage of the 2003 SARS outbreak / J. Brian Houston, Wen-yu Chao and Sandra Ragan; title: Effects of rationality and story attributes on SARS perception / Shuhua Zhou, Chia-hsin Pan and Xin Zhong.