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 continentsConnects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo-liberalization of state servicesProvides an important contribution to the global public debate on the challenges of emerging infectious disease in citiesExamines the impact of globalization on future infectious disease threats on international and local politics and cultureFocuses on the ways pathogens interact with economic, political and social factors, ultimately presenting a threat to human development and global citiesEmploys 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

S. Harris Ali is a trained Environmental Sociologist and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto. His research interests involve the study of environmental health issues and the sociology of disasters and risk from an interdisciplinary perspective. He has published on toxic contamination events and disease outbreaks in such journals asSocial Problems, Social Science and Medicine, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, and theJournal of Canadian Public Policy.

Roger Keil is the Director of the City Institute, and Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, at York University, Toronto. His publications includeLos Angeles: Urbanization, Globalization and Social Struggles;Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles; andThe Global Cities Reader. Keil is the co-editor of theInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research and a member of the International Network for Urban Research and Action.

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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.