The Politics of an Epidemic: SARS & Chinatown
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2005Advisor
Green, Linda BCommittee Chair
Green, Linda BMetadata
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The University of Arizona.Rights
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This thesis explores how the 2003 epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, threw into relief the myriad historical, political and economic factors that shape understandings of and responses to a new disease. The author traces how the historic "othering" of Chinese immigrants and their descendents in the United States was combined with dominant discourses of risk and blame to understand SARS and the potential for a domestic epidemic. Narratives from community members of Manhattan's Chinatown are used to investigate the local impacts of the production of these discourses during the SARS epidemic. Finally, the author explores how these dominant discourses were applied locally within Chinatown understand local and personal risk.Type
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M.A.Degree Level
mastersDegree Program
AnthropologyGraduate College