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    Networked disease : emerging infections in the global city / edited by S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil.

    • Title:Networked disease : emerging infections in the global city / edited by S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Ali, S. Harris.
      Keil, Roger, 1957-
    • Published/Created:Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley/Blackwell, 2008.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:SARS (Disease)--Canada--Toronto.
      SARS (Disease)--China--Hong Kong.
      SARS (Disease)--Singapore.
      Globalization--Health aspects.
      Urban health.
    • Medical Subjects: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome--prevention & control.
      Communicable Diseases, Emerging--prevention & control.
      Internationality.
      Public Health Practice.
      Urban Health.
    • Description:xxii, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
    • Series:Studies in urban and social change.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-337) and index.
    • ISBN:9781405161343 (pbk.)
      1405161345 (pbk.)
      9781405161336 (PLPC)
      1405161337 (PLPC)
    • Contents:Introduction. Networked Disease / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil
      Pt. 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
      Pt. 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
      Pt. III. Cultural Construction of Disease in the Global City
      Introduction / S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil
      6. 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
      Pt. IV. Re-Emerging Infectious Disease, Urban Public Health, and Global Biosecurity
      Introduction / 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
      Pt. 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. Meshy Traffic, feverish Borders: Blood, Birds, and Civet Cats in Cities Brimming with Intimate Commodities / Paul Jackson
      Concluding Remarks / Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali.
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