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SARS in context : memory, history, policy /

Less than a year after the SARS outbreak in Toronto and well before the official reports were written, physicians involved in the control of the SARS outbreak joined with several historians of disease and policy experts to reflect on the crisis. The essays in SARS in Context are based on the papers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies
Otros Autores: Duffin, Jacalyn (Editor ), Sweetman, Arthur (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006.
Colección:McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 27.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Lessons and disappointments / Jacalyn Duffin
  • My experience with SARS / James G. Young
  • Remembering SARS and the Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory Committee / Dick Zoutman
  • SARS and plagues past / Ann G. Carmichael
  • SARS viewed from the etiological standpoint / K. Codell Carter
  • From cholera to SARS: communicable disease-control procedures in Toronto, 1832-2003 / Heather A. MacDougall
  • Making history: TB and the public health legacy of SARS in Canada / Georgina Feldberg
  • SARS in the light of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS / Jay Cassel
  • Introduction to economic issues in epidemiology and public policy / Arthur Sweetman
  • Governance in pandemics: defining the federal government's role in public health emergencies / Kumanan Wilson and Harvey Lazar
  • The economic impacts of SARS and pandemic influenza / Steven James and Timothy Sargent.