Networked Disease - Emerging Infections In The Global City

• 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

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.

List of Tables.

Notes on Contributors.

Series Editors’ Preface.

Preface.

Introduction: Networked Disease: S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil.

Part I: Infectious Disease and Globalized Urbanization:.

Introduction: S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil.

1. Toward a Dialectical Understanding of Networked Disease in the Global City:.

Vulnerability, Connectivity, Topologies: Estair Van Wagner.

2. Health and Disease in Global Cities: A Neglected Dimension of National.

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

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

Introduction: S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil.

6. The Troubled Public Sphere and Media Coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS.

Outbreak: Daniel Drache and David Clifton.

7. SARS as a “Health Scare”: Claire Hooker.

8. City under Siege: Authoritarian Toleration, Mask Culture, and the SARS.

Crisis in Hong Kong: Peter Baehr.

9. “Racism is a Weapon of Mass Destruction”: SARS and the Social Fabric of.

Urban Multiculturalism: Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali.

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 of Public Health: Matthew Gandy.

11. Tuberculosis and the Anxieties of Containment: Susan Craddock.

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 to Urban.

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 the Work of Michel.

Foucault: Philipp Sarasin.

17. Fleshy Traffic, Feverish Borders: Blood, Birds, and Civet Cats in Cities.

Brimming with Intimate Commodities: Paul Jackson.

Concluding Remarks: Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali.

Bibliography.

Index.