The social construction of SARS :: studies of a health communication crisis /

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...

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Other Authors: Powers, John H. (John Henry), 1947-, Xiao, Xiaosui
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008.
Series:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 30.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 soc.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 242 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027290854
9027290857
1282104535
9781282104532
9786612104534
6612104538

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