Networked disease
Subtitle: emerging infections in the global city
By: [edited by] S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil.
Contributors: Ali, S. Harris.; Keil, Roger, 1957-
Series: Studies in urban and social change
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405161336; 9781405161343
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: SARS and the global city : building a theoretical framework / Estair van Wagner; title: Health and disease in global cities : a neglected dimension of national health policy / Victor Rodwin; title: SARS and the restructuring of health care governance in Toronto / Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali; title: Globalization, SARS and health governance in Honk Kong : one country, two systems / Mee Kam Ng; title: Surveillance in a globalizing city : Singapore's battle against SARS / Peggy Teo, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Shir Nee Ong; title: The troubled public sphere and media coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS outbreak / Daniel Drache and David Clifton; title: SARS as a health scare / Claire Hooker; title: City under siege : authoritarian toleration, mask culture, and the SARS crisis in Hong Kong / Peter Baehr; title: Racism is a weapon of mass destruction : SARS and the social fabric of multiculturalism / Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali; title: Deadly alliances : death, disease, and the global politics of public health / Matthew Gandy; title: Tuberculosis and the anxieties of containment / Susan Craddock; title: Networks, disease, and the utopian impulse / Nicholas King; title: People, animals, and biosecurity in and through cities / Steve Hinchliffe and Nick Bingham; title: SARS as an emergent complex : towards a networked approach to urban infectious disease / S. Harris Ali; title: Cities, bodies, and space-time : thinking the urban through emerging infectious diseases / Bruce Braun; title: Vapours, viruses, resistance(s) : the trace of infection in the work of Michel Foucault / Philipp Sarasin; title: Flashy traffic, feverish borders : blood, birds, and civet cats in cities brimming with intimate commodities / Paul Jackson.