SARS from East to West

Eva-Karin Olsson is senior analyst at the National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training at Swedish National Defence college. Lan Xue is professor and Dean of School of Public Policy and Management, Executive Vice President of the Development Research Academy for the 21st Century, and Director of China Institute for Science and Technology Policy at Tsinghua University.

1 Acknowledgments 2 Abbreviations 3 1. SARS: Meeting an Epidemic Head-On 4 2. SARS in China: An Overview 5 3. SARS in Beijing: An Urban Response 6 4. SARS in Hong Kong 7 5. An Analytical Memoir of the WHO Operation in China 8 6. SARS in Canada: Lessons to be Learned from the Greater Toronto Outbreak 9 7. SARS and Representations of the Morality of Quarantine in Ontario, Canada 10 8. Early International News Flow about SARS: Interconnected or Unconnected? 11 9. SARS in China: Western European News Coverage of a Pandemic in the East 12 10. Transboundary Crisis Management: Implications for Research and Practice 13 About the Contributors