Networked Disease Emerging Infections in the Global City [Hardcover]

• Presents original contributions by scholars from seven countries on four continents
• Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and neo-liberalization of state services
• Provides an important contribution to the global public debate on the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities
• Examines the impact of globalization on future infectious disease threats on international and local politics and culture
• Focuses on the ways pathogens interact with economic, political and social factors, ultimately presenting a threat to human development and global cities
• Employs an interdisciplinary approach to the SARS epidemic, clearly demonstrating the value of social scientific perspectives on the study of modern disease in a globalized world

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: Torontl#