Why the World Fails to Prepare for Pandemics: Complacence, Complicity and Crisis Modes, P. M. Ananth
Автор: Engelen, Ewald; Erturk, Ismail; Froud, Julie; Joha Название: After the Great Complacence ISBN: 0199589089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199589081 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7443.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides an accessible cultural and political analysis of how our disorderly and financialized system of capitalism works, what led to the financial crisis that began in 2007, the policy debates about reform, and why democratic control is difficult after the events of 2008.
Автор: Pieri, Elisa (university Of Manchester, Uk) Название: Pandemics: the basics ISBN: 0367610132 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367610135 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 3061.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many origins and triggers of pandemic events.
Автор: Unuigbe, Ngozi Finette Название: Traditional ecological knowledge and global pandemics ISBN: 0367692945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367692940 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7961.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book demonstrates the importance and potential role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in foreseeing and curbing future global pandemics.
Описание: In far too many cases, recommendations of forensic reports on previous pandemics were ignored. Substantial weaknesses in the preparation by public health authorities and governments increased the health and economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic relative to what they would have been if pre-existing recommendations had been followed and a wider set of plans had been put into place. We discuss parallels between the lack of preparation of financial system regulators prior to the global financial crisis and the lack of preparation by public health authorities and governments prior to COVID-19. These parallels relate to: required stocks (of capital or equipment), data collection and sharing, lending facilities, stress testing and war games, early warning indicators and systems, contagion from abroad, operational risks, a system-wide approach (including effects on the real economy), models incorporating the heterogeneity of individuals, and effects on less-regulated parts of the system. The recent COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that, apart from the direct economic consequences from illness and death from the virus, the main costs have been due to the varying degrees of preventative measures taken by the public, firms, and governments that directly impacted health, as well as social, economic, and financial activity. We make recommendations for carrying out post mortems on the COVID-19 experience, planning for future pandemics, and establishing transparent and accountable governance systems. We then propose the use of regular, combined health, economic, and financial stress tests and exercises/war games in preparing for future pandemics and other major environmental shocks.
This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance of the current crisis for politics and society.
The chapters provide both analysis of the social and political dimensions of the Coronavirus pandemic and historical contextualization as well as perspectives beyond the crisis. The volume seeks to focus on Covid-19 not simply as the terrain of epidemiology or public health, but as raising fundamental questions about the nature of social, economic and political processes. The problems of contemporary societies have become intensified as a result of the pandemic. Understanding the pandemic is as much a sociological question as it is a biological one, since viral infections are transmitted through social interaction. In many ways, the pandemic poses fundamental existential as well as political questions about social life as well as exposing many of the inequalities in contemporary societies. As the chapters in this volume show, epidemiological issues and sociological problems are elucidated in many ways around the themes of power, politics, security, suffering, equality and justice.
This is a cutting edge and accessible volume on the Covid-19 pandemic with chapters on topics such as the nature and limits of expertise, democratization, emergency government, digitalization, social justice, globalization, capitalist crisis, and the ecological crisis.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Gerard Delanty 1. Introduction: The Pandemic in Historical and Global Context
Part 1 Politics, Experts and the State
Claus Offe 2. Corona Pandemic Policy: Exploratory Notes on its 'Epistemic Regime'
Stephen Turner 3. The Naked State: What the Breakdown of Normality Reveals
Jan Zielonka 4. Who Should be in Charge of Pandemics? Scientists or Politicians?
Jonathan White 5. Emergency Europe after Covid-19
Daniel Innerarity 6. Political Decision-Making in a Pandemic
Part 2 Globalization, History and the Future
Helga Nowotny 7. In AI We Trust: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Pushes us Deeper into Digitalization
Eva Horn 8. Tipping Points: The Anthropocene and COVID-19
Bryan S. Turner 9. The Political Theology of Covid-19: a Comparative History of Human Responses to Catastrophes
Daniel Chernilo 10. Another Globalisation: Covid-19 and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
Fr d ric Vandenberghe & Jean-Francois V ran 11. The Pandemic as a Global Total Social Fact
Part 3 The Social and Alternatives
Sylvia Walby 12. Social Theory and COVID: Including Social Democracy
Donatella della Porta 13. Progressive Social Movements, Democracy and the Pandemic
Sonja Avlijas 14. Security for Whom? Inequality and Human Dignity in Times of the Pandemic
Albena Azmanova 15. Battlegrounds of Justice: The Pandemic and What Really Grieves the 99%
This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance of the current crisis for politics and society.
The chapters provide both analysis of the social and political dimensions of the Coronavirus pandemic and historical contextualization as well as perspectives beyond the crisis. The volume seeks to focus on Covid-19 not simply as the terrain of epidemiology or public health, but as raising fundamental questions about the nature of social, economic and political processes. The problems of contemporary societies have become intensified as a result of the pandemic. Understanding the pandemic is as much a sociological question as it is a biological one, since viral infections are transmitted through social interaction. In many ways, the pandemic poses fundamental existential as well as political questions about social life as well as exposing many of the inequalities in contemporary societies. As the chapters in this volume show, epidemiological issues and sociological problems are elucidated in many ways around the themes of power, politics, security, suffering, equality and justice.
This is a cutting edge and accessible volume on the Covid-19 pandemic with chapters on topics such as the nature and limits of expertise, democratization, emergency government, digitalization, social justice, globalization, capitalist crisis, and the ecological crisis.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Gerard Delanty 1. Introduction: The Pandemic in Historical and Global Context
Part 1 Politics, Experts and the State
Claus Offe 2. Corona Pandemic Policy: Exploratory Notes on its ‘Epistemic Regime’
Stephen Turner 3. The Naked State: What the Breakdown of Normality Reveals
Jan Zielonka 4. Who Should be in Charge of Pandemics? Scientists or Politicians?
Jonathan White 5. Emergency Europe after Covid-19
Daniel Innerarity 6. Political Decision-Making in a Pandemic
Part 2 Globalization, History and the Future
Helga Nowotny 7. In AI We Trust: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Pushes us Deeper into Digitalization
Eva Horn 8. Tipping Points: The Anthropocene and COVID-19
Bryan S. Turner 9. The Political Theology of Covid-19: a Comparative History of Human Responses to Catastrophes
Daniel Chernilo 10. Another Globalisation: Covid-19 and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
Frederic Vandenberghe & Jean-Francois Veran 11. The Pandemic as a Global Total Social Fact
Part 3 The Social and Alternatives
Sylvia Walby 12. Social Theory and COVID: Including Social Democracy
Donatella della Porta 13. Progressive Social Movements, Democracy and the Pandemic
Sonja Avlijas 14. Security for Whom? Inequality and Human Dignity in Times of the Pandemic
Albena Azmanova 15. Battlegrounds of Justice: The Pandemic and What Really Grieves the 99%
Описание: This timely interdisciplinary book brings together a wide spectrum of theoretical concepts and their empirical applications in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, informing our understanding of the social and psychological bases of a global crisis.
Автор: McMillen Christian W. Название: Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0199340072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199340071 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, and HIV.
Описание: "Portrays epidemiologists as disease detectives who tirelessly hunt for clues and excel at deductive reasoning. Even Sherlock Holmes would be proud of this astute group of professionals."--Booklist Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes. Deadly Outbreaks recounts the scientific adventures of a special group of intrepid individuals who investigate these outbreaks around the world and figure out how to stop them. Part homicide detective, part physician, these medical investigators must view the problem from every angle, exhausting every possible source of contamination. Any data gathered in the field must be stripped of human sorrows and carefully analyzed into hard statistics. Author Alexandra Levitt, PhD, is an expert on emerging diseases and other public health threats. Here she shares insider accounts she's collected that go behind the alarming headlines we've seen in the media: mysterious food poisonings, unexplained deaths at a children's hospital, a strange neurologic disease afflicting slaughterhouse workers, flocks of birds dropping dead out of the sky, and drug-resistant malaria running rampant in a refugee camp. Meet the resourceful investigators--doctors, veterinarians, and research scientists--and discover the truth behind these cases and more. This edition features a new introduction by the author
Описание: Pandemics can come in waves--like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives.
Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, which can have devastating consequences on their hosts. Most, but not all, bacteria are good for us. Some are truly horrific, including those that caused the bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plagues. And viruses and bacteria are always morphing, evolving, and changing, making them hard to treat. Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 is an enlightening, and sometimes frightening, recounting of the destruction wrought by disease, but it also looks at what man has done and can do to overcome even the deadliest and bleakest of contagions.
More than two years in the making, author Heather E. Quinlan was deep into her research and writing when COVID hit. She quickly saw the similarities to plagues from the past. Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 not only covers the history, causes, medical treatments, human responses, and aftermath of the world's biggest pandemics, but it also draws parallels to the present. It chronicles the diseases that have inflicted man throughout the millennia, including ...
The differences (and similarities) between COVID-19 and other coronaviruses
The bubonic plague/black plague, which wiped out 30% to 60% of Europe's population
The devastation to the indigenous population during the European colonization of the Americas
The 1918 Spanish Flu, which did not come from Spain
How disease "inspired" The Canterbury Tales, Wuthering Heights, the pop art of Keith Haring, and other art and literature
AIDS' "patient zero"
How climate change will affect future pandemics
The aftermath of various pandemics
Several modern diseases making a comeback
... and much, much more.
Along with investigating some of history's most notorious pandemics and diseases, Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses takes a look at human resilience and what we've learned from the past. It looks at how science, the medical community, and governments have conquered or mitigated most epidemics even before they can turn into pandemics. It reviews the science of pandemics, preventative measures, and medical interventions and it includes an exclusive interview with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as other experts in the medical community. Richly illustrated, it also has a helpful bibliography and extensive index. This invaluable resource is designed to help you understand, and protect you from, plagues, pandemics, epidemics, viruses, and disease
Название: Robotics for pandemics ISBN: 1032048735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032048734 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 11942.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Robotics for Pandemics explores various applications of robots for current global issues such as pandemics and how robotic solutions could combat the virus.
Автор: Abeysinghe Название: Pandemics, Science and Policy ISBN: 1137467193 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137467195 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation`s (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways in which the WHO`s account was vulnerable to contestation, and ultimately how uncertain risks can affect policy and action on the global level.
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