Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City

Copyright © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City

Editor(s): S. Harris Ali, Roger Keil

Published Online: 12 MAR 2009

Print ISBN: 9781405161336

Online ISBN: 9781444305012

DOI: 10.1002/9781444305012

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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

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxii)

    1. Introduction: Networked Disease (pages 1–7)

      S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil

  3. Part I: Infectious Disease and Globalized Urbanization

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      Part Introduction (pages 9–12)

    2. Chapter 1

      Toward a Dialectical Understanding of Networked Disease in the Global City: Vulnerability, Connectivity, Topologies (pages 13–26)

      Estair Van Wagner

    3. Chapter 2

      Health and Disease in Global Cities: A Neglected Dimension of National Health Policy (pages 27–48)

      Victor G. Rodwin

  4. Part II: SARS and Health Governance in the Global City: Toronto, Hong Kong, and Singapore

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      Part Introduction (pages 49–54)

    2. Chapter 3

      SARS and the Restructuring of Health Governance in Toronto (pages 55–69)

      Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali

    3. Chapter 4

      Globalization of SARS and Health Governance in Hong Kong under “One Country, Two Systems” (pages 70–85)

      Mee Kam Ng

    4. Chapter 5

      Surveillance in a Globalizing City: Singapore's Battle against SARS (pages 86–101)

      Peggy Teo, Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Shir Nee Ong

  5. Part III: The Cultural Construction of Disease in the Global City

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      Part Introduction (pages 103–107)

    2. Chapter 6

      The Troubled Public Sphere and Media Coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS Outbreak (pages 108–122)

      Daniel Drache and David Clifton

    3. Chapter 7

      SARS as a “Health Scare” (pages 123–137)

      Claire Hooker

    4. Chapter 8

      City under Siege: Authoritarian Toleration, Mask Culture, and the SARS Crisis in Hong Kong (pages 138–151)

      Peter Baehr

    5. Chapter 9

      “Racism is a Weapon of Mass Destruction”: SARS and the Social Fabric of Urban Multiculturalism (pages 152–166)

      Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali

  6. Part IV: Re-Emerging Infectious Disease, Urban Public Health, and Global Biosecurity

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      Part Introduction (pages 167–171)

    2. Chapter 10

      Deadly Alliances: Death, Disease, and the Global Politics of Public Health (pages 172–185)

      Matthew Gandy

    3. Chapter 11

      Tuberculosis and the Anxieties of Containment (pages 186–200)

      Susan Craddock

    4. Chapter 12

      Networks, Disease, and the Utopian Impulse (pages 201–213)

      Nicholas B. King

    5. Chapter 13

      People, Animals, and Biosecurity in and through Cities (pages 214–227)

      Steve Hinchliffe and Nick Bingham

  7. Part V: Networked Disease: Theoretical Approaches

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      Part Introduction (pages 229–234)

    2. Chapter 14

      SARS as an Emergent Complex: Toward a Networked Approach to Urban Infectious Disease (pages 235–249)

      S. Harris Ali

    3. Chapter 15

      Thinking the City through SARS: Bodies, Topologies, Politics (pages 250–266)

      Bruce Braun

    4. Chapter 16

      Vapors, Viruses, Resistance(s): The Trace of Infection in the Work of Michel Foucault (pages 267–280)

      Philipp Sarasin

    5. Chapter 17

      Fleshy Traffic, Feverish Borders: Blood, Birds, and Civet Cats in Cities Brimming with Intimate Commodities (pages 281–296)

      Paul Jackson

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      Concluding Remarks (pages 297–304)

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      Bibliography (pages 305–337)

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      Index (pages 338–356)

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