Social Construction of SARS
Studies of a health communication crisis
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…
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- ISBN: 978-90-272-9085-4
- EAN: 9789027290854
- Produktnummer: 22562516
- Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 249 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'371 KB
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