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Sars - Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities (Paperback)
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Sars - Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
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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 the global media. Written by a team of contributors
from a wide variety of disciplines, this book investigates the rise
and subsequent decline of SARS in Hong Kong, mainland China and
Taiwan. Multidisciplinary in its approach, SARS explores the
epidemic from the perspectives of cultural geography, media studies
and popular culture, and raises a number of important issues such
as the political fate of the new democracy, spatial governance and
spatial security, public health policy making, public culture
formation, the role the media play in social crisis, and above all
the special relations between the three countries in the context of
globalization and crisis. It provides new and profound insights
into what is still a highly topical issue in today's world.
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