Networked Disease
Emerging Infections in the Global City
Published on 5. July 2011
384 pages
978-1-4443-9911-0 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researcherson the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious diseasemanagement in progressively global and urban societies.
* Presents original contributions by scholars from sevencountries on four continents
* Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, andgovernance in a post-national era of public health regulations andneo-liberalization of state services
* Provides an important contribution to the global public debateon the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities
* Examines the impact of globalization on future infectiousdisease threats on international and local politics andculture
* Focuses on the ways pathogens interact with economic, politicaland social factors, ultimately presenting a threat to humandevelopment and global cities
* Employs an interdisciplinary approach to the SARS epidemic,clearly demonstrating the value of social scientific perspectiveson the study of modern disease in a globalized world
Reviews / Votes
?Much interesting material and probing analysis can be found inthis text, which is suitable for graduate students and academicsconcerned with the intersection between cities and health.?(Canadian Journal of Sociology, Summer 2009) ?This is a unique book that examines emerging infectiousdiseases through the lens of sociologists and would be aninteresting reference for public-health practitioners,travel-health experts, infectious disease physicians, sociologists,and political scientists.? (The Lancet.com, October2009) "In this unique and invaluable reconstruction of how the deadlySARS virus hitchhiked from China to Canada in 2002?03, we aresquarely confronted with the enormous inadvertent biologicalconsequences of economic globalization and the emergence ofso-called 'world cities'." Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine "As both an urban/environmental sociologist and resident ofToronto during the 2003 SARS crisis, I have the highest praise forNetworked Disease. The contributors have done a masterfuljob identifying the practical and theoretical challenges associatedwith the global spread of emerging infectious diseases. Thiscutting edge material should seriously engage academics, students,and practitioners in social geography, urban studies, publichealth, and environmental sociology." John Hannigan, University of Toronto"In this unique and invaluable reconstruction of how the deadlySARS virus hitchhiked from China to Canada in 2002-03, we aresquarely confronted with the enormous inadvertent biologicalconsequences of economic globalization and the emergence ofso-called 'world cities'." -Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine "As both an urban/environmental sociologist and resident ofToronto during the 2003 SARS crisis, I have the highest praise forNetworked Disease. The contributors have done a masterfuljob identifying the practical and theoretical challenges associatedwith the global spread of emerging infectious diseases. Thiscutting edge material should seriously engage academics, students,and practitioners in social geography, urban studies, publichealth, and environmental sociology." -John Hannigan, University of TorontoMore details
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Persons
S. Harris Ali is a trained Environmental Sociologist and anAssociate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at YorkUniversity, Toronto. His research interests involve the study ofenvironmental health issues and the sociology of disasters and riskfrom an interdisciplinary perspective. He has published on toxiccontamination events and disease outbreaks in such journals asSocial Problems, Social Science and Medicine, The CanadianReview of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Journal ofCanadian Public Policy.
Roger Keil is the Director of the City Institute, andProfessor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, at YorkUniversity, Toronto. His publications include Los Angeles:Urbanization, Globalization and Social Struggles; Nature andthe City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and LosAngeles; and The Global Cities Reader. Keil is theco-editor of the International Journal of Urban and RegionalResearch and a member of the International Network for UrbanResearch and Action.
Content
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Notes on Contributors.
Series Editors' Preface.
Preface.
Introduction: Networked Disease (S. Harris Ali and RogerKeil).
Part I: Infectious Disease and GlobalizedUrbanization.
Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).
1 Toward a Dialectical Understanding of Networked Disease in theGlobal City: Vulnerability, Connectivity, Topologies (Estair VanWagner).
2 Health and Disease in Global Cities: A Neglected Dimension ofNational 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 againstSARS (Peggy Teo, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Shir Nee Ong).
Part III: The Cultural Construction of Disease in the GlobalCity.
Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).
6 The Troubled Public Sphere and Media Coverage of the 2003Toronto SARS Outbreak (Daniel Drache and David Clifton).
7 SARS as a "Health Scare" (Claire Hooker).
8 City under Siege: Authoritarian Toleration, Mask Culture, andthe SARS Crisis in Hong Kong (Peter Baehr).
9 "Racism is a Weapon of Mass Destruction": SARS and the SocialFabric of Urban Multiculturalism (Roger Keil and S. HarrisAli).
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 ofPublic Health (Matthew Gandy).
11 Tuberculosis and the Anxieties of Containment (SusanCraddock).
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 toUrban 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 theWork of Michel Foucault (Philipp Sarasin).
17 Fleshy Traffic, Feverish Borders: Blood, Birds, and CivetCats in Cities Brimming with Intimate Commodities (PaulJackson).
Concluding Remarks (Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali).
Bibliography.
Index.
