Main description:

A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies.* Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents* Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo-liberalization of state services* Provides an important contribution to the global public debate on the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities* Examines the impact of globalization on future infectious disease threats on international and local politics and culture* Focuses on the ways pathogens interact with economic, political and social factors, ultimately presenting a threat to human development and global cities* Employs an interdisciplinary approach to the SARS epidemic, clearly demonstrating the value of social scientific perspectives on the study of modern disease in a globalized world

Contents:

List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on Contributors. Series Editors' Preface. Preface. Introduction: Networked Disease ( S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil ). Part 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 ). Part 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 ). Part III: The Cultural Construction of Disease in the Global City. Introduction ( S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil ). 6 The 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 ). Part IV: Re-Emerging Infectious Disease, Urban Public Health, and Global Biosecurity. Introduction ( S. 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 ). Part 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 Fleshy Traffic, Feverish Borders: Blood, Birds, and Civet Cats in Cities Brimming with Intimate Commodities ( Paul Jackson ). Concluding Remarks ( Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali ). Bibliography. Index.