S. Harris Ali & Roger Keil 
Networked Disease 
Emerging Infections in the Global City

A collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers
on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease
management in progressively global and urban societies.

* Presents original contributions by scholars from seven
countries on four continents

* Connects newer thinking on global cities, networks, and
governance in a post-national era of public health regulations and
neo-liberalization of state services

* Provides an important contribution to the global public debate
on the challenges of emerging infectious disease in cities

* Examines the impact of globalization on future infectious
disease threats on international and local politics and
culture

* Focuses on the ways pathogens interact with economic, political
and social factors, ultimately presenting a threat to human
development and global cities

* Employs an interdisciplinary approach to the SARS epidemic,
clearly demonstrating the value of social scientific perspectives
on the study of modern disease in a globalized world

Daftar Isi

List of Figures.

List of Tables.

Notes on Contributors.

Series Editors’ Preface.

Preface.

Introduction: Networked Disease (S. Harris Ali and Roger
Keil).

Part I: Infectious Disease and Globalized
Urbanization.

Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

1 Toward a Dialectical Understanding of Networked Disease in the
Global City: Vulnerability, Connectivity, Topologies (Estair Van
Wagner).

2 Health and Disease in Global Cities: A Neglected Dimension of
National Health Policy (Victor G. Rodwin).

Part II: SARS and Health Governance in the Global City:
Toronto, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

3 SARS and the Restructuring of Health Governance in Toronto
(Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali).

4 Globalization of SARS and Health Governance in Hong Kong under
‘One Country, Two Systems’ (Mee Kam Ng).

5 Surveillance in a Globalizing City: Singapore’s Battle against
SARS (Peggy Teo, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Shir Nee Ong).

Part III: The Cultural Construction of Disease in the Global
City.

Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

6 The Troubled Public Sphere and Media Coverage of the 2003
Toronto SARS Outbreak (Daniel Drache and David Clifton).

7 SARS as a ‘Health Scare’ (Claire Hooker).

8 City under Siege: Authoritarian Toleration, Mask Culture, and
the SARS Crisis in Hong Kong (Peter Baehr).

9 ‘Racism is a Weapon of Mass Destruction’: SARS and the Social
Fabric of Urban Multiculturalism (Roger Keil and S. Harris
Ali).

Part IV: Re-Emerging Infectious Disease, Urban Public Health,
and Global Biosecurity.

Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

10 Deadly Alliances: Death, Disease, and the Global Politics of
Public Health (Matthew Gandy).

11 Tuberculosis and the Anxieties of Containment (Susan
Craddock).

12 Networks, Disease, and the Utopian Impulse (Nicholas B.
King).

13 People, Animals, and Biosecurity in and through Cities
(Steve Hinchliffe and Nick Bingham).

Part V: Networked Disease: Theoretical Approaches.

Introduction (S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil).

14 SARS as an Emergent Complex: Toward a Networked Approach to
Urban Infectious Disease (S. Harris Ali).

15 Thinking the City through SARS: Bodies, Topologies, Politics
(Bruce Braun).

16 Vapors, Viruses, Resistance(s): The Trace of Infection in the
Work of Michel Foucault (Philipp Sarasin).

17 Fleshy Traffic, Feverish Borders: Blood, Birds, and Civet
Cats in Cities Brimming with Intimate Commodities (Paul
Jackson).

Concluding Remarks (Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali).

Bibliography.

Index.

Tentang Penulis

S. Harris Ali is a trained Environmental Sociologist and an
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York
University, Toronto. His research interests involve the study of
environmental health issues and the sociology of disasters and risk
from an interdisciplinary perspective. He has published on toxic
contamination events and disease outbreaks in such journals as
Social Problems, Social Science and Medicine, The Canadian
Review of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Journal of
Canadian Public Policy.

Roger Keil is the Director of the City Institute, and
Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, at York
University, Toronto. His publications include Los Angeles:
Urbanization, Globalization and Social Struggles; Nature and
the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los
Angeles; and The Global Cities Reader. Keil is the
co-editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional
Research and a member of the International Network for Urban
Research and Action.