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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765813303321

Autore

Davis Deborah

Titolo

SARS : reception and interpretation in three Chinese cities / / edited by Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2006

London : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2007

ISBN

981-238-442-1

1-135-98526-X

1-135-98527-8

1-280-70473-X

9786610704736

0-203-96769-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary China series ; ; 16

Classificazione

HEA020000HEA039120POL019000

Disciplina

614.59200951

Soggetti

SARS (Disease) - China

Public health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. SARS: Reception and interpretations in three Chinese cities; 2. Global connectivity and local politics: SARS, talk radio, and public opinion; 3. Sars, avian flu, and the urban double take; 4. Eulogy and practice: Public professionals and private lives; 5. Artistic responses to SARS: Footprints in the local and global realms of cyberspace; 6. SARS humor for the virtual community: Between the Chinese emerging public sphere and the authoritarian state

7. The weakness of a post-authoritarian democratic society: Reflections upon Taiwan's societal crisis during the SARS outbreak8. Epilogue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small



Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantine in the absence of any scientific knowledge of the disease. Now three years on from the initital outbreak, SARS poses no major threat and has vanished from