The Social Construction of SARS

Studies of a health communication crisis

John H. Powers, Xiaosui Xiao (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

242 Seiten

2008
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-0618-3 (ISBN)

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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 societies with the result that different communities handled the crisis in different ways, some far more effectively than others. Accordingly, the 12 chapters in The Social Construction of SARS are studies of how a major health-related crisis was understood and dealt with from a communicative perspective in such diverse places as Hong Kong, mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Canada and the United States during the SARS outbreak.

1. Introduction (by Powers, John H.); 2. Part I. Constructions of SARS in Hong Kong; 3. 1. Hong Kong's multiple constructions of SARS (by Powers, John H.); 4. 2. A hero story without heroes: The Hong Kong government's narratives on SARS (by Xiao, Xiaosui); 5. 3. "SARS" versus "atypical pneumonia": Inconsistencies in Hong Kong's public health warnings and disease-prevention campaign (by Gong, Gwendolyn); 6. 4. Internet press freedom and online crisis reporting: The role of news web sites in the SARS epidemic (by Lee, Alice Y.L.); 7. Part II. Constructions of SARS on the Chinese mainland; 8. 5. Party journalism vs. market journalism: The coverage of SARS by the People's Daily and Beijing Youth News (by Xiaoyan, Huang); 9. 6. Construction of nationalism and political legitimacy through rhetoric of the anti-SARS campaign: A fantasy theme analysis (by Lu, Xing); 10. 7. SARS discourse as an anti-SARS ideology: The case of Beijing (by Tian, Hailong); 11. Part III. Constructions of SARS in Singapore and Taiwan; 12. 8. "Triumph over adversity": Singapore mobilizes Confucian values to combat SARS (by Weber, Ian); 13. 9. Singapore at war: SARS and its metaphors (by Hudson, Chris); 14. 10. Reporting an emerging epidemic in Taiwan: Journalists' experiences of SARS coverage (by Hsu, Mei-Ling); 15. Part IV. Cross national constructions of SARS; 16. 11. Newspaper coverage of the 2003 SARS outbreak (by Houston, J. Brian); 17. 12. Effects of rationality and story attributes on perceptions of SARS perception (by Zhou, Shuhua); 18. Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.11.2008
Reihe/Serie	Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture ; 30
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 245 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
ISBN-10	90-272-0618-X / 902720618X
ISBN-13	978-90-272-0618-3 / 9789027206183
Zustand	Neuware