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New. 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…
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Sars: Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities Paperback - 2014
by Deborah Davis (Editor); Helen F. Siu (Editor)
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- Title Sars: Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities
- Author Deborah Davis (Editor); Helen F. Siu (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 180
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2014-08-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780415651622 / 041565162X
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.27 cm)
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- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.196
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