The 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...

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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.
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505 0 # |a Hong Kong's multiple constructions of SARS / John H. Powers and Gwendolyn Gong -- A hero story without heroes : the Hong Kong government's narratives on SARS / Xiaosui Xiao -- "SARS" versus "atypical pneumonia" : inconsistencies in Hong Kong's public health warnings and disease-prevention campaign / Gwendolyn Gong and Sam Dragga -- Internet press freedom and online crisis reporting : the role of news web sites in the SARS epidemic / Alice Y.L. Lee -- Party journalism vs. market journalism : the coverage of SARS by People's Daily and Beijing Youth News / Huang Xiaoyan and Hao Xiaoming -- Construction of nationalism and political legitimacy through rhetoric of the anti-SARS campaign : a fantasy theme analysis / Xing Lu -- SARS discourse as an anti-SARS ideology : the case of Beijing / Hailong Tian -- "Triumph over adversity" : Singapore mobilizes Confucian values to combat SARS / Ian Weber, Tan Howe Yang and Law Loo Shien -- Singapore at war : SARS and its metaphors / Chris Hudson -- Reporting an emerging epidemic in Taiwan : journalists' experiences of SARS coverage / Mei-Ling Hsu -- Newspaper coverage of the 2003 SARS outbreak / J. Brian Houston, Wen-yu Chao and Sandra Ragan -- Effects of rationality and story attributes on SARS perception / Shuhua Zhou, Chia-hsin Pan and Xin Zhong. 
520 # # |a 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. 
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