SARS from East to West

Contributions by Logan Atkinson, Stephanie Buus, Joan Deppa, Edward Deverell, Dan Markel, Andrew Seaberg, Simon Shen, Eric K. Stern, Christopher Stoney, Grace Han Yao, Kaibin Zhong, Qin Zhu Edited by Eva-Karin Olsson, Lan Xue

Publication date:

09 November 2011

Length of book:

270 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9780739147566

SARS from East to West is the production of international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed.

Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue bring together crisis management scholars with genuine knowledge of the geographic area covered in each of the chapters to examine the response to the SARS crisis at national and international levels, as well as media analysis.

1 Acknowledgments
2 Abbreviations
3 1. SARS: Meeting an Epidemic Head-On
4 2. SARS in China: An Overview
5 3. SARS in Beijing: An Urban Response
6 4. SARS in Hong Kong
7 5. An Analytical Memoir of the WHO Operation in China
8 6. SARS in Canada: Lessons to be Learned from the Greater Toronto Outbreak
9 7. SARS and Representations of the Morality of Quarantine in Ontario, Canada
10 8. Early International News Flow about SARS: Interconnected or Unconnected?
11 9. SARS in China: Western European News Coverage of a Pandemic in the East
12 10. Transboundary Crisis Management: Implications for Research and Practice
13 About the Contributors

This volume offers a unique multidisciplinary and cross-national perspective on institutional and media responses to the SARS outbreak. Its in-depth coverage of key outbreak events, decisions, actions and media representations in China (including Hong Kong) and Canada helps us understand just how disruptive and challenging even a medium-fatality viral outbreak like SARS can be. This book is a must-read for students of disasters and emergency management world-wide.