Pandemic Societies
eBook - ePub

Pandemic Societies

A Critical Public Health Perspective

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Pandemic Societies

A Critical Public Health Perspective

About this book

From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new challenges but the responses are often similar.

This important book explores the dimensions, dynamics and implications of emerging pandemic societies. Drawing on ideas from sociology and science and technology studies, it sheds new light on how pandemics are socially produced and, in turn, shape societies in areas such as governance, work and recreation, science and technology, education, and family life. It offers pointers to the future of pandemic societies, including the expansion of technologies of surveillance and control, as well as the prospects of social renewal created by economic and social disruption.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1 Pandemics as Socio-Political Phenomena
  7. 2 The Politics of Framing a Pandemic Crisis
  8. 3 Modelling Pandemics
  9. 4 Pandemic Crisis and Inequalities
  10. 5 Pandemic Crisis and Technological Change
  11. 6 Future Pandemic Societies
  12. References
  13. Index