S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil, eds., Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City

Authors

  • Shelly Ungar UTSC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs6393

Author Biography

Shelly Ungar, UTSC

Dr. Sheldon Ungar is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He has researched real world events that have produced social scares, including the nuclear arms race, emerging diseases (Ebola), global climate change and bird flu. His current work also examines knowledge and ignorance and seeks to identify how popular culture and new media affect “cultural literacy,” including instances of the “silencing of science.” In the past year, he has published papers on ignorance as a social problem (British Journal of Sociology) and global coverage of bird Flu (Communicating Science).

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Published

2009-09-11

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Book Reviews/Comptes rendus