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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815843403321

Autore

Ding Huiling

Titolo

Rhetoric of a global epidemic : transcultural communication about SARS / / Huiling Ding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, Illinois : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8093-3320-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Classificazione

LAN015000LAN004000MED022090MED036000

Disciplina

362.1962

Soggetti

SARS (Disease)

Communication in public health

World health - Forecasting

Epidemics - Prevention

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Transcultural Flows, Communication, and Rhetorics during a Global Epidemic; 1. Critical Contextualized Methodology for Transcultural Communication Study; 2. Risk Communication about an Emerging Epidemic in Guangdong, China; 3. Rhetorics of Alternative Media, Censorship, and SARS; 4. Constructing SARS: The United States, China, and WHO; 5. Transnational Risk Management of SARS and H1N1 Flu via Travel Advisories; Conclusion: Transcultural Communication and Rhetoric about Global Epidemics

Appendix: Additional Notes on Methodology and SourcesNotes; Works Cited; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

In the past ten years, we have seen great changes in the ways government organizations and media respond to and report on emerging global epidemics. The first outbreak to garner such attention was SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). In Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic, Huiling Ding uses SARS to explore how various cultures and communities made sense of the epidemic and communicated about it. She also investigates the way knowledge production and legitimation operate in global epidemics, the roles that professionals and



professional communicators, as well as individual citizens,