Networked Disease (eBook)

S. Harris Ali is a trained Environmental Sociologist and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto. His research interests involve the study of environmental health issues and the sociology of disasters and risk from an interdisciplinary perspective. He has published on toxic contamination events and disease outbreaks in such journals as Social Problems, Social Science and Medicine, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Journal of Canadian Public Policy. Roger Keil is the Director of the City Institute, and Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, at York University, Toronto. His publications include Los Angeles: Urbanization, Globalization and Social Struggles; Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles; and The Global Cities Reader. Keil is the co-editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and a member of the International Network for Urban Research and Action.

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Notes on Contributors.

Series Editors' Preface.

Preface.

Introduction: Networked Disease (S. Harris Ali and Roger
Keil).

Part I: Infectious Disease and Globalized
Urbanization.

Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

1 Toward a Dialectical Understanding of Networked Disease in the
Global City: Vulnerability, Connectivity, Topologies (Estair Van
Wagner).

2 Health and Disease in Global Cities: A Neglected Dimension of
National Health Policy (Victor G. Rodwin).

Part II: SARS and Health Governance in the Global City:
Toronto, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

3 SARS and the Restructuring of Health Governance in Toronto
(Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali).

4 Globalization of SARS and Health Governance in Hong Kong under
"One Country, Two Systems" (Mee Kam Ng).

5 Surveillance in a Globalizing City: Singapore's Battle against
SARS (Peggy Teo, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Shir Nee Ong).

Part III: The Cultural Construction of Disease in the Global
City.

Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

6 The Troubled Public Sphere and Media Coverage of the 2003
Toronto SARS Outbreak (Daniel Drache and David Clifton).

7 SARS as a "Health Scare" (Claire Hooker).

8 City under Siege: Authoritarian Toleration, Mask Culture, and
the SARS Crisis in Hong Kong (Peter Baehr).

9 "Racism is a Weapon of Mass Destruction": SARS and the Social
Fabric of Urban Multiculturalism (Roger Keil and S. Harris
Ali).

Part IV: Re-Emerging Infectious Disease, Urban Public Health,
and Global Biosecurity.

Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

10 Deadly Alliances: Death, Disease, and the Global Politics of
Public Health (Matthew Gandy).

11 Tuberculosis and the Anxieties of Containment (Susan
Craddock).

12 Networks, Disease, and the Utopian Impulse (Nicholas B.
King).

13 People, Animals, and Biosecurity in and through Cities
(Steve Hinchliffe and Nick Bingham).

Part V: Networked Disease: Theoretical Approaches.

Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

14 SARS as an Emergent Complex: Toward a Networked Approach to
Urban Infectious Disease (S. Harris Ali).

15 Thinking the City through SARS: Bodies, Topologies, Politics
(Bruce Braun).

16 Vapors, Viruses, Resistance(s): The Trace of Infection in the
Work of Michel Foucault (Philipp Sarasin).

17 Fleshy Traffic, Feverish Borders: Blood, Birds, and Civet
Cats in Cities Brimming with Intimate Commodities (Paul
Jackson).

Concluding Remarks (Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali).

Bibliography.

Index.

?Much interesting material and probing analysis can be found in
this text, which is suitable for graduate students and academics
concerned with the intersection between cities and health.?
(Canadian Journal of Sociology, Summer 2009)

?This is a unique book that examines emerging infectious
diseases through the lens of sociologists and would be an
interesting reference for public-health practitioners,
travel-health experts, infectious disease physicians, sociologists,
and political scientists.? (The Lancet.com, October
2009)

"In this unique and invaluable reconstruction of how the deadly
SARS virus hitchhiked from China to Canada in 2002?03, we are
squarely confronted with the enormous inadvertent biological
consequences of economic globalization and the emergence of
so-called 'world cities'."

Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine

"As both an urban/environmental sociologist and resident of
Toronto during the 2003 SARS crisis, I have the highest praise for
Networked Disease. The contributors have done a masterful
job identifying the practical and theoretical challenges associated
with the global spread of emerging infectious diseases. This
cutting edge material should seriously engage academics, students,
and practitioners in social geography, urban studies, public
health, and environmental sociology."

John Hannigan, University of Toronto

"In this unique and invaluable reconstruction of how the deadly
SARS virus hitchhiked from China to Canada in 2002-03, we are
squarely confronted with the enormous inadvertent biological
consequences of economic globalization and the emergence of
so-called 'world cities'."

-Mike Davis, University of California, Irvine

"As both an urban/environmental sociologist and resident of
Toronto during the 2003 SARS crisis, I have the highest praise for
Networked Disease. The contributors have done a masterful
job identifying the practical and theoretical challenges associated
with the global spread of emerging infectious diseases. This
cutting edge material should seriously engage academics, students,
and practitioners in social geography, urban studies, public
health, and environmental sociology."

-John Hannigan, University of Toronto