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The Making of a Pandemic: Social, Political, and Psychological Perspectives on Covid-19

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The Making of a Pandemic provides a systematic account of how societal and psychological forces shaped the Covid-19 pandemic. The first part focuses on how biological and societal factors interact to create a pandemic. The second part explores how characteristics of the American economy, the American approach to public health, and domestic and international inequality combined to prolong the pandemic, hamper mitigation efforts, and arouse opposition to cooperation with public health measures. The third part examines the psychological processes that led to resistance to efforts to mitigate the pandemic and linked the resistance to right-wing ideologies. The book concludes by looking at the limits of the technical and medical reforms others have proposed to protect us from repetitions of the Covid-19 disaster and by calling for a “deep confrontation” with the societal and psychological factors that created and shaped the pandemic.

 

Author(s): John Ehrenreich
Series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022

Language: English
Pages: 152
City: Cham

Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Part I: The Revenge of the Microbes
Chapter 2: The Brief Conquest of Infectious Disease
References
Chapter 3: Pandemics as Social Disorders
A Pandemic Is a Social Disorder
References
Chapter 4: The Sources of Pandemics
Getting Sick: Increased Exposure to Wild Animals
Getting Sick: Deforestation
Getting Sick: The Livestock Revolution
Getting Sick: Global Warming
References
Chapter 5: From Disease to Pandemic
COVID-19 and the Lab Leak Hypothesis
References
Part II: The Failed Response
Chapter 6: The Roots of Disaster
References
Chapter 7: The Failure of the “Invisible Hand”
References
Chapter 8: The Handcuffing of the Public Health System
Narrowing the Mission of Public Health
References
Chapter 9: The Cost of Inequality
References
Part III: The Resistance to Mitigation
Chapter 10: The Crooked Timber of Humanity
References
Part IV: The Deep Lessons
Chapter 11: The Fourth Horseman
References
Index