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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;
v. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290854 9027290857 1282104535 9781282104532 9786612104534 6612104538 |