Davis, Deborah <br/><br/>
Sars  Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities 

 - Oxford  Taylor & Francis  2006 
 - 1 electronic resource (192 p.) 
 - Routledge Contemporary China Series .
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203967690 9781135985271 9780203967690 9781135985226 9780415651622 9781135985264 9780415770859 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9780203967690  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political campaigning and advertising<br/>Infectious and contagious diseases<br/>Public administration<br/>Media studies<br/>Health, illness and addiction: social aspects<br/>Regional / International studies<br/>History<br/>Sociology<br/>Medical sociology
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>SARS Outbreak outbreak SARS Virus patient SARS Crisis virus SARS Patient atypical Civil Society pneumonia HKSAR crisis Amoy Gardens hong SARS Case kong Chinese Communist Party jiang Chinese Government yanyong Mobile Phone Short Messaging Services SARS Epidemic Shanghai Art Museum HKSAR Government Taiwanese Nurses Tuen Mun Hospital Talk Radio Programs SMS Message Taiwanese Civil Society TCM Practitioner