The Social Construction of SARS
Studies of a health communication crisis
Editors
| Hong Kong Baptist University
| Hong Kong Baptist University
When the SARS virus began its spread from southern China around the world in spring 2003, it caught regional and international health officials by surprise. The SARS epidemic itself lasted for only a few months, whereas its treatment, in communicative terms, keeps providing us with important lessons that can prepare us all for the much larger pandemic that many are predicting will eventually occur. While the medical aspects of SARS are now relatively well understood, the discursive rhetorical dimensions are much less so.
As an international epidemic, SARS arrived in a number of distinctive societies with the result that different communities handled the crisis in different ways, some far more effectively than others. Accordingly, the 12 chapters in The Social Construction of SARS are studies of how a major health-related crisis was understood and dealt with from a communicative perspective in such diverse places as Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada and the United States during the SARS outbreak.
As an international epidemic, SARS arrived in a number of distinctive societies with the result that different communities handled the crisis in different ways, some far more effectively than others. Accordingly, the 12 chapters in The Social Construction of SARS are studies of how a major health-related crisis was understood and dealt with from a communicative perspective in such diverse places as Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada and the United States during the SARS outbreak.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] 2008. vi, 242 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
1–13
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Part I. Constructions of SARS in Hong Kong
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15
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17–31
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33–52
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53–68
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69–90
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Part II. Constructions of SARS on the Chinese mainland
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91
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93–107
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109–124
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125–142
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Part III. Constructions of SARS in Singapore and Taiwan
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143
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145–162
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163–179
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181–199
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Part IV. Cross national constructions of SARS
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201
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203–221
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223–240
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Index
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241–242
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“The volume is indeed a multidisciplinary and multi-perspective examination of the multiple constructions of SARS in varied sociocultural contexts. A thorough and careful reading is recommended. What the reader can get from it is not only a comprehensive understanding as to how a health crisis is at the same time a communication crisis, but also insightful lessons to better tackle human crises with special regard to discourse and communication.”
Hou-Song, Nanchang Hangkong University, China, in Discourse Studies, Vol. 12(1), 2010
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Subjects
Communication Studies
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General