Networked disease : emerging infections in the global city / edited by S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-337) and index.

Toward a dialectical understanding of networked disease in the global city : vulnerability, connectivity, topologies / Estair van Wagner -- Health and disease in global cities : a neglected dimension of national health policy / Victor G. Rodwin -- SARS and the restructuring of health care governance in Toronto / Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali -- Globalization of SARS and health governance in Hong Kong under "one country, two systems" / Mee Kam Ng -- Surveillance in a globalizing city : Singapore's battle against SARS / Peggy Teo, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Shir Nee Ong -- The troubled public sphere and media coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS outbreak / Daniel Drache and David Clifton -- SARS as a "health scare" / Claire Hooker -- City under siege : authoritarian toleration, mask culture, and the SARS crisis in Hong Kong / Peter Baehr -- "Racism is a weapon of mass destruction" : SARS and the social fabric of multiculturalism / Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali -- Deadly alliances : death, disease, and the global politics of public health / Matthew Gandy -- Tuberculosis and the anxieties of containment / Susan Craddock -- Networks, disease, and the utopian impulse / Nicholas B. King -- People, animals, and biosecurity in and through cities / Steve Hinchliffe and Nick Bingham -- SARS as an emergent complex : toward a networked approach to urban infectious disease / S. Harris Ali -- Thinking the city through SARS : bodies, topologies, politics / Bruce Braun -- Vapors, viruses, resistance(s) : the trace of infection in the work of Michel Foucault / Philipp Sarasin -- Fleshy traffic, feverish borders : blood, birds, and civet cats in cities brimming with intimate commodities / Paul Jackson.

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 i.

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