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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Transcultural Flows, Communication, and Rhetorics during a Global Epidemic; 1. Critical Contextualized Methodology for Transcultural Communication Study; 2. Risk Communication about an Emerging Epidemic in Guangdong, China; 3. Rhetorics of Alternative Media, Censorship, and SARS; 4. Constructing SARS: The United States, China, and WHO; 5. Transnational Risk Management of SARS and H1N1 Flu via Travel Advisories; Conclusion: Transcultural Communication and Rhetoric about Global Epidemics |
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Appendix: Additional Notes on Methodology and SourcesNotes; Works Cited; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover |
| Summary |
In the past ten years, we have seen great changes in the ways government organizations and media respond to and report on emerging global epidemics. The first outbreak to garner such attention was SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). In Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic, Huiling Ding uses SARS to explore how various cultures and communities made sense of the epidemic and communicated about it. She also investigates the way knowledge production and legitimation operate in global epidemics, the roles that professionals and professional communicators, as well as individual citizens, play in the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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SARS (Disease)
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Communication in public health.
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World health -- Forecasting
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Epidemics -- Prevention
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Communication.
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World health.
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Misinformation.
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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Communication
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Epidemics -- prevention & control
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Global Health
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
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MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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World health
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Communication
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Communication in public health
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Epidemics -- Prevention
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SARS (Disease)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780809333202 |
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0809333201 |
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