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SARS Unmasked : Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society SeriesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (464 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773576858
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: SARS UnmaskedDDC classification:
  • 614.5
LOC classification:
  • RA423.2
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part One: SARS in Canada -- 1 SARS Timeline: What Happened When in Canada -- 2 Emergency Room Culture and Dealing with SARS -- 3 Properties of Coronaviruses and Factors Contributing to SARS Transmission -- 4 The SARS Experience -- 5 The Social Amplification of Risk and SARS as a Risk Issue -- 6 The Stigma of SARS and Its Effect on People and Places -- 7 The Need for Sex- and Gender-Sensitive Supports for Healthcare Workers During Infectious Disease Outbreaks -- 8 SARS Hospitals and Infectious Disease Response -- 9 Public SARS Reports - Recommendations from Expert Panels -- Part Two: Risk Communication and Pandemic Disease -- 10 Risk Communication of SARS in Canada -- 11 SARS and Risk Communication in Other Affected Countries -- 12 Avian Influenza -- 13 Emergency Preparedness for Future Pandemics: Lessons from SARS -- Appendix: SARS Timelines -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was the first global pandemic of the twenty-first century, spreading within weeks from southern China to over thirty-seven countries around the world. In Canada intense news media coverage had a profound impact on how the disease was perceived, with frontline health care workers, despite their heroic efforts, stigmatized due to their contact with patients.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part One: SARS in Canada -- 1 SARS Timeline: What Happened When in Canada -- 2 Emergency Room Culture and Dealing with SARS -- 3 Properties of Coronaviruses and Factors Contributing to SARS Transmission -- 4 The SARS Experience -- 5 The Social Amplification of Risk and SARS as a Risk Issue -- 6 The Stigma of SARS and Its Effect on People and Places -- 7 The Need for Sex- and Gender-Sensitive Supports for Healthcare Workers During Infectious Disease Outbreaks -- 8 SARS Hospitals and Infectious Disease Response -- 9 Public SARS Reports - Recommendations from Expert Panels -- Part Two: Risk Communication and Pandemic Disease -- 10 Risk Communication of SARS in Canada -- 11 SARS and Risk Communication in Other Affected Countries -- 12 Avian Influenza -- 13 Emergency Preparedness for Future Pandemics: Lessons from SARS -- Appendix: SARS Timelines -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was the first global pandemic of the twenty-first century, spreading within weeks from southern China to over thirty-seven countries around the world. In Canada intense news media coverage had a profound impact on how the disease was perceived, with frontline health care workers, despite their heroic efforts, stigmatized due to their contact with patients.

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