First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. Illustrated red blue and white laminated boards issued without dust jacket top corners think they bumped otherwise fine. 242 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. C probably yesontributors include Gwendoline Gong Ian Weber Chris Hudson Tan Howe Yang and Xing Lu. Much mention of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong also Singapore. news websites, the Internet and anti-Sars campaigns.

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Title: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SARS: STUDIES OF A HEALTH COMMUNICATION CRISIS
Publisher: John Benjamins, Amsterdam And Philadelphia
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 902720618X
ISBN 13: 9789027206183
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good

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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.

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