The social construction of SARS studies of a health communication crisis /

• Other Authors: Powers, John H. 1947-, Xiao, Xiaosui.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2008.
• Series: Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 30.
• Subjects: SARS (Disease); Communication in public health.; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.; Communication.; Disease Outbreaks.; Mass Media.; HEALTH & FITNESS > Respiratory. > Diseases; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 242 p.) : ill.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789027290854 (electronic bk.); 9027290857 (electronic bk.)

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 soc.