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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 and presentations from the 2004 symposium. Former Ontario Chief Coroner James Young and infectious disease expert Dick Zoutman recount their efforts to contain the mysterious new disease. In answer to questions about "lessons from the past," several distinguished historians of epidemics examine how their knowledge of responses to older plagues influenced their perception of SARS. They also reflect on how the advent of SARS alters their views of the past. Finally, policy experts comment on possible changes to health care that the SARS experience suggests should be made. |
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| Notas: | "Most of the chapters were first read at a symposium held at Queen's University in February 2004, a symposium that originated in the encounters of medical historians with journalists reporting on SARS"--Introduction. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773576841 0773576843 1282867288 9781282867284 9786612867286 6612867280 0773581642 9780773581647 |