Sars in China - Prelude to Pandemic?

Informationen zum Autor Arthur Kleinman is Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Professor of Medical Anthropology and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. James L. Watson is Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is also the author of Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 1997). Klappentext "This book has lined up a remarkable team of authors to try to answer the question: what can we learn from SARS before the next pandemic? And its value lies in the significant issues that it has highlighted."--The China Review Zusammenfassung This book examines the structure and impact of the SARS epidemic, and its short- and medium-range implications for an interconnected, globalized world. In so doing, it poses a question of the greatest possible significance: Can we learn from SARS before the next pandemic?

Product details

• Authors: Arthur (EDT)/ Watson Kleinman, Arthur Watson Kleinman
• Assisted by: Arthur Kleinman (Editor), James Watson (Editor), James L Watson (Editor), James L. Watson (Editor)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2005
• EAN: 9780804753142
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5314-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Asiatische Geschichte, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Medical / Nursing, HISTORY / Asia / China