Networked Disease Emerging Infections in the Global City

by Ali, S. Harris; Keil, Roger

• ISBN13: 9781405161343
• ISBN10: 1405161345
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Of late, possible global pandemic scares have garnered much attention from the media and health professionals. Debates abound over just how prepared health care systems worldwide are to deal with the fallout from an outbreak of the avian flu, SARS, anthrax, West Nile Virus, Ebola, or other emerging infectious diseases. Yet the urban aspects of such diseases -particularly within the context of globalizing cities and the global cities network - have been virtually ignored. Detection, monitoring and response strategies must be compatible with the current political, social, economic and ecological developments unfolding within our increasingly complex world.This collection examines the impact of globalization on the transmission of and response to SARS in Toronto, Hong Kong, and Singapore. With contributions from some of the most distinguished scholars in the field - along with newer, innovative works by aspiring junior researchers - the book uses the SARS outbreak as a springboard for further discussion about infectious disease management in progressively global and urban societies. This tightly integrated thematic selection offers a unique and timely contribution to a vitally important field of research.

Author Biography

S. Harris Ali is a trained Environmental Sociologist and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto. His research interests involve the study of environmental health issues and the sociology of disasters and risk from an interdisciplinary perspective. He has published on toxic contamination events and disease outbreaks in such journals as Social Problems, Social Science and Medicine, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Journal of Canadian Public Policy.

Roger Keil is the Director of the City Institute, and Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, at York University, Toronto. His publications include Los Angeles: Urbanization, Globalization and Social Struggles; Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles; and The Global Cities Reader. Keil is the co-editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and a member of the International Network for Urban Research and Action.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Series Editors' Preface	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Introduction: Networked Disease	p. 1
Infectious Disease and Globalized Urbanization	p. 9
Introduction	p. 10
Toward a Dialectical Understanding of Networked Disease in the Global City: Vulnerability, Connectivity, Topologies	p. 13
Health and Disease in Global Cities: A Neglected Dimension of National Health Policy	p. 27
SARS and Health Governance in the Global City: Toronto, Hong Kong, and Singapore	p. 49
Introduction	p. 50
SARS and the Restructuring of Health Governance in Toronto	p. 55
Globalization of SARS and Health Governance in Hong Kong under "One Country, Two Systems"	p. 70
Surveillance in a Globalizing City: Singapore's Battle against SARS	p. 86
The Cultural Construction of Disease in the Global City	p. 103
Introduction	p. 104
The Troubled Public Sphere and Media Coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS Outbreak	p. 108
SARS as a "Health Scare"	p. 123
City under Siege: Authoritarian Toleration, Mask Culture, and the SARS Crisis in Hong Kong	p. 138
"Racism is a Weapon of Mass Destruction": SARS and the Social Fabric of Urban Multiculturalism	p. 152
Re-Emerging Infectious Disease, Urban Public Health, and Global Biosecurity	p. 167
Introduction	p. 168
Deadly Alliances: Death, Disease, and the Global Politics of Public Health	p. 172
Tuberculosis and the Anxieties of Containment	p. 186
Networks, Disease, and the Utopian Impulse	p. 201
People, Animals, and Biosecurity in and through Cities	p. 214
Networked Disease: Theoretical Approaches	p. 229
Introduction	p. 230
SARS as an Emergent Complex: Toward a Networked Approach to Urban Infectious Disease	p. 235
Thinking the City through SARS: Bodies, Topologies, Politics	p. 250
Vapors, Viruses, Resistance(s): The Trace of Infection in the Work of Michel Foucault	p. 267
Fleshy Traffic, Feverish Borders: Blood, Birds, and Civet Cats in Cities Brimming with Intimate Commodities	p. 281
Concluding Remarks	p. 297
Bibliography	p. 305
Index	p. 338
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