Arthur Kleinman and James L. Watson (eds), SARS in China

As memories of the 2003 SARS outbreak slowly fade away, SARS in China is an invitation to revisit the days of anxiety, their legacy and the paradigms that were arguably turned upside down during this episode. SARS was unusual in many ways. First, and importantly, it was brief. But it was nonetheless challenging, intense and global, thanks to air travel. The book captures aspects of life under SARS through several lenses. The authors write that it became rather unintentionally a transdisciplin...