SARS in China (eBook)

Prelude to Pandemic?

Arthur Kleinman, James L. Watson (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2005
256 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-1485-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The SARS epidemic of 2003 was one of the most serious public health crises of our times. The event, which lasted only a few months, is best seen as a warning shot, a wake-up call for public health professionals, security officials, economic planners, and policy makers everywhere.SARS in China addresses the structure and impact of the epidemic and its short and medium range implications for an interconnected, globalized world. Warnings from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made it clear that SARS may have been a prelude to bigger things. The authors of this volume focus on specific aspects of the SARS outbreak epidemiological, political, economic, social, cultural, and moral. They analyze SARS as a form of social suffering and raise questions about the relevance of national sovereignty in the face of such global threats. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that SARS had the potential of becoming a major turning point in human history. This book forces us to ask what we have learned from SARS as we go on to face newer, and farther-reaching pandemics. The current case of the COVID-19 outbreak amplifies the urgency of this question, and illuminates the strengths and shortcomings of different national responses to such pandemics.Contributors:Erik EckholmJoan KaufmanArthur Kleinman Dominic Lee Sing LeeMegan Murray Thomas G. RawskiTony Saich Alan Schnur James L. Watson Hong ZhangYun Kwok Wing

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.10.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Coronavirus • COVID19 • cross-species transmission • cultural pluralism • doctor patient relashionship • healthcare for specific groups • international • intraspecies transmission • Masks • political dimensions of biology and medicine • PPE • quarantine • zoonotic
• ISBN-10: 1-5036-1485-9 / 1503614859
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-1485-7 / 9781503614857