Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City

English

Series: Studies in Urban and Social Change Ser.

Volume: 18

ISBN: 1444305026

EAN: 9781444305029

Category: Political Science / Globalization/Medical / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine/

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Release Date: 02/23/2009

Synopsis: 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

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