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SARS in context : memory, history, policy
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SARS in context : memory, history, policy

Author: Jacalyn Duffin; Arthur Sweetman; Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies.
Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2006.
Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society, 27.
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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  Read more...
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SARS in context.
Montreal ; Ithaca : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006
(OCoLC)608087219
Online version:
SARS in context.
Montreal ; Ithaca : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006
(OCoLC)630975498
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jacalyn Duffin; Arthur Sweetman; Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies.
ISBN: 9780773531932 0773531939 9780773531949 0773531947
OCLC Number: 76794238
Notes: "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" --Intro.
Description: xii, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Lessons and disappointments / Jacalyn Duffin --
My experience with SARS / James G. Young --
Remembering SARS and the Ontario SARS Scientific Advisory Committee / Dick Zoutman --
SARS and plagues past / Ann G. Carmichael --
SARS viewed from the etiological standpoint / K. Codell Carter --
From cholera to SARS: communicable disease-control procedures in Toronto, 1832-2003 / Heather A. MacDougall --
Making history: TB and the public health legacy of SARS in Canada / Georgina Feldberg --
SARS in the light of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS / Jay Cassel --
Introduction to economic issues in epidemiology and public policy / Arthur Sweetman --
Governance in pandemics: defining the federal government's role in public health emergencies / Kumanan Wilson and Harvey Lazar --
The economic impacts of SARS and pandemic influenza / Steven James and Timothy Sargent.
Series Title: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society, 27.
Responsibility: edited by Jacalyn Duffin and Arthur Sweetman.
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Presents an analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak by physicians involved in the crisis, historians, and policy experts. In answer to questions about "lessons from the past," this work examines how their  Read more...

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