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Networked Disease Emerging Infections in the Global City

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.11.2008

Herausgeber

Ali S. Harris + weitere

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

384

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/2,5 cm

Gewicht

680 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-6133-6

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

01.11.2008

Herausgeber

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

384

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/2,5 cm

Gewicht

680 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-6133-6

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Networked Disease

  • List of Figures.

    List of Tables.

    Notes on Contributors.

    Series Editors' Preface.

    Preface.

    Introduction: Networked Disease (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

    Part I: Infectious Disease and Globalized Urbanization.

    Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

    1 Toward a Dialectical Understanding of Networked Disease in the Global City: Vulnerability, Connectivity, Topologies (Estair Van Wagner).

    2 Health and Disease in Global Cities: A Neglected Dimension of National 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 against SARS (Peggy Teo, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Shir Nee Ong).

    Part III: The Cultural Construction of Disease in the Global City.

    Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

    6 The Troubled Public Sphere and Media Coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS Outbreak (Daniel Drache and David Clifton).

    7 SARS as a "Health Scare" (Claire Hooker).

    8 City under Siege: Authoritarian Toleration, Mask Culture, and the SARS Crisis in Hong Kong (Peter Baehr).

    9 "Racism is a Weapon of Mass Destruction": SARS and the Social Fabric of Urban Multiculturalism (Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali).

    Part IV: Re-Emerging Infectious Disease, Urban Public Health, and Global Biosecurity.

    Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

    10 Deadly Alliances: Death, Disease, and the Global Politics of Public Health (Matthew Gandy).

    11 Tuberculosis and the Anxieties of Containment (Susan Craddock).

    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 to Urban 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 the Work of Michel Foucault (Philipp Sarasin).

    17 Fleshy Traffic, Feverish Borders: Blood, Birds, and Civet Cats in Cities Brimming with Intimate Commodities (Paul Jackson).

    Concluding Remarks (Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali).

    Bibliography.

    Index.