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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460175103321

Titolo

SARS in context [[electronic resource] ] : memory, history, policy / / edited by Jacalyn Duffin and Arthur Sweetman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-86728-8

9786612867286

0-7735-7684-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; ; 27

Altri autori (Persone)

DuffinJacalyn

SweetmanArthur

Disciplina

362.196/2009713

Soggetti

SARS (Disease) - Ontario - Epidemiology - History - 21st century

Communicable diseases - Ontario - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Most of the chapters were first read at a symposium held at Queen's University in February 2004, a symposium that originated in the encounters of medical historians with journalists reporting on SARS" --Intro.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : lessons and disappointments / Jacalyn Duffin -- Pt. I. Memory : two medical officials recall SARS in Toronto -- 2. My experience with SARS / James G. Young -- 3. Remembering SARS and the Ontario SARS scientific advisory committee / Dick Zoutman -- Pt. II. History : historians of disease reflect on SARS -- 4. SARS and plagues past / Ann G. Carmichael -- 5. SARS viewed from the etiological standpoint / K. Codell Carter -- 6. From cholera to SARS : communicable disease-control procedures in Toronto, 1832 to 2003 / Heather A. MacDougall -- 7. Making history : TB and the public health legacy of SARS in Canada / Georgina Feldberg -- 8. SARS in the light of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS / Jay Cassel -- Pt. III. Public policy in the aftermath of SARS -- 9. Introduction to economic issues in epidemiology and public policy / Arthur Sweetman -- 10. Governance in pandemics : defining the federal government's role in public health



emergencies / Kumanan Wilson and Harvey Lazar -- 11. economic impacts of SARS and pandemic influenza / Steven James and Timothy Sargent.