Rights and quarantine during the SARS global health crisis: Differentiated legal consciousness in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Toronto

Law and Society Review

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 511-552

  Jacobs, Lesley A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 33846938324     PISSN: 00239216     EISSN: 15405893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2007.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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