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SARS in ContextMemory, History, and Policy |
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An analysis of the 2003 SARS outbreak by physicians involved in the crisis, historians, and policy experts.
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.
Contributors include Ann G. Carmichael (Indiana), K. Codell Carter (Brigham Young University), Jay Cassel (Ph.D), Georgina D. Feldberg (York), Harvey Lazar (Victoria), Heather A. MacDougall (Waterloo), James Young (Former Coroner of Ontario and Commissioner of Public Safety and Security), and Kumanan Wilson (Toronto).
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.
Contributors include Ann G. Carmichael (Indiana), K. Codell Carter (Brigham Young University), Jay Cassel (Ph.D), Georgina D. Feldberg (York), Harvey Lazar (Victoria), Heather A. MacDougall (Waterloo), James Young (Former Coroner of Ontario and Commissioner of Public Safety and Security), and Kumanan Wilson (Toronto).
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Part of the McGill-Queen’s/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society (number 27 in series)
224 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773531932
October 2006
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
“SARS in Context is important, and compelling, reading.” Judy Z. Segal, ISIS
Jacalyn Duffin, physician and historian, is professor emerita at Queen's University, where she held the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine from 1988 to 2017.
Arthur Sweetman is professor and Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources at McMaster University.
Arthur Sweetman is professor and Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources at McMaster University.
SARS in Context
Edited by Jacalyn Duffin and Arthur Sweetman
Table of Contents
Tables and Figures xi
Acknowledgements and About the Cover xiii
1 Introduction: Lessons and Disappointments
Jacalyn Duffin
PART I
Memory: Two Medical Officials Recall SARS in Toronto
2 My Experience with SARS
James G. Young 19
3 Remembering SARS and the Ontario SARS Scientific
Advisory Committee
Dick Zoutman 27
PART II
History: Historians of Disease Reflect on SARS
4 SARS and Plagues Past
Ann G. Carmichael 43
5 SARS Viewed from the Etiological Standpoint
K. Codell Carter 69
6 From Cholera to SARS: Communicable Disease-Control Procedures in Toronto, 1832 to 2003
Heather A. MacDougall
7 Making History: TB and the Public Health Legacy of SARS in Canada
Georgina Feldberg
8 SARS in the Light of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS
Jay Cassel
PART III
Public Policy in the Aftermath of SARS
9 Introduction to Economic Issues in Epidemiology and Public Policy
Arthur Sweetman
10 Governance in Pandemics: Defining the Federal Government's Role in Public Health Emergencies Kumanan Wilson and Harvey Lazar
11 The Economic Impacts of SARS and Pandemic Influenza
Steven James and Timothy Sargent
About the Authors
Index
Edited by Jacalyn Duffin and Arthur Sweetman
Table of Contents
Tables and Figures xi
Acknowledgements and About the Cover xiii
1 Introduction: Lessons and Disappointments
Jacalyn Duffin
PART I
Memory: Two Medical Officials Recall SARS in Toronto
2 My Experience with SARS
James G. Young 19
3 Remembering SARS and the Ontario SARS Scientific
Advisory Committee
Dick Zoutman 27
PART II
History: Historians of Disease Reflect on SARS
4 SARS and Plagues Past
Ann G. Carmichael 43
5 SARS Viewed from the Etiological Standpoint
K. Codell Carter 69
6 From Cholera to SARS: Communicable Disease-Control Procedures in Toronto, 1832 to 2003
Heather A. MacDougall
7 Making History: TB and the Public Health Legacy of SARS in Canada
Georgina Feldberg
8 SARS in the Light of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS
Jay Cassel
PART III
Public Policy in the Aftermath of SARS
9 Introduction to Economic Issues in Epidemiology and Public Policy
Arthur Sweetman
10 Governance in Pandemics: Defining the Federal Government's Role in Public Health Emergencies Kumanan Wilson and Harvey Lazar
11 The Economic Impacts of SARS and Pandemic Influenza
Steven James and Timothy Sargent
About the Authors
Index
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