Kah Seng Loh, Li Yang Hsu

Pandemics in Singapore, 1819-2022 (eBook, ePUB)

Lessons for the Age of COVID-19

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Singapore has faced many pandemics over the centuries, from smallpox and cholera to influenza and novel coronaviruses. By examining how different governments responded, this book considers what we can learn from their experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000999563
• Artikelnr.: 68867079

Autorenporträt

Kah Seng Loh is a historian and director of a research consultancy.

Li Yang Hsu is an infectious diseases physician who is Vice-Dean of Global Health at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1 The Quarantine of the Trinity
2 Plague: An Endemic Sinbad
3 Smallpox: Racialising the Epidemic
4 Cholera and Remaking the City
5 The Infectious Diseases Hospital: Hanging Fire
6 1890 Flu: Poison at the Wharves
7 1918 Flu: Blind Spot in the Colonial System
8 1957 Flu: The Limits of Decolonisation
9 Swine Flu to Bird Flu: Epidemiology and Surveillance
10 The SARS Effect
11 COVID-19: A Culmination and a Departure of Sorts
Conclusion
The Authors
Bibliography
Index