Research Catalog

Title

SARS in context : memory, history, policy / edited by Jacalyn Duffin and Arthur Sweetman.

Publication

Montreal ; Ithaca : School of Policy Studies, Queen's University : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Duffin, Jacalyn
• Sweetman, Arthur.
• Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies

Description

xii, 206 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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 Zoutman recount their efforts to contain the mysterious new disease. In answer to questions about "lessons from the past," several distinguished historians of epidemics examine how their knowledge of responses to older plagues influenced their perception of SARS. They also reflect on how the advent of SARS alters their views of the past. Finally, policy experts comment on possible changes to health care that the SARS experience suggests should be made.

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 27

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 27.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Disease Outbreaks
• Public Policy
• Health Policy
• Disease Outbreaks > history
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• SARS (Disease) > Ontario > History > 21st century
• Communicable diseases > Ontario > History
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome > Canada
• Health Policy > Canada
• Public Policy > Canada
• Canada

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index and bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780773531932 (bound)
• 0773531939 (bound)
• 9780773531949 (pbk.)
• 0773531947 (pbk.)

OCLC

76794238

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library