The Covid-19 Reader (eBook, ePUB)

The Science and What It Says About the Social
Redaktion: Cockerham, William; Cockerham, Geoffrey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This reader offers the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says for its spread and social implications. With carefully selected chapters for an introductory or graduate student readership by a distinguished medical sociology team, this reader is an essential teaching resource on Covid-19.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000332605
• Artikelnr.: 60674107

Autorenporträt

William C. Cockerham is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Chair Emeritus, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Research Scholar of Sociology, College of William & Mary, USA. He is the author of Medical Sociology, 15th ed. (Routledge, forthcoming); Sociological Theories of Health and Illness (Routledge, 2021); Sociology of Mental Disorder, 11th ed. (Routledge, 2021); Social Causes of Health and Disease, 3rd ed. (2021); Associate Editor-in-Chief, The International Encyclopedia of Public Health (2017); and Editor-in-Chief, Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society (2014). Geoffrey B. Cockerham, Associate Professor of Political Science at Utah Valley University, is the author of Global Governance and Public Health (2018) and Health and Globalization (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

Part I. Introduction

1. Preparing for the Next Pandemic



2. Identifying Airborne Transmission as the Dominant Route for the Spread of COVID-19



3. Asymptomatic Transmission, the Achilles' Heel of Current Strategies to Control Covid-19


Part II. The Origin in China


4. Pangolins Harbor SARS-CoV-2-Related Coronaviruses
   
5. The Epidemiological and Clinical Features of COVID-19 and Lessons from this Global Infectious Public Health Event



6. Authoritarianism, Outbreaks, and Information Politics



7. China's Diplomacy and Changing the COVID-19 Narrative


Part III. Europe


8. First Cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the WHO European Region, 24 January to 21 February 2020



9. Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality: Are Comorbidities to Blame?



10. Nudges Against Pandemics: Sweden's COVID-19 Containment Strategy in Perspective



11. Herd immunity or suppression strategy to combat COVID-19


Part IV. United States and Canada


12. Public Health Response to the Initiation and Spread of Pandemic COVID-19 in the United States, February 24-April 21, 2020



13. Characteristics of Persons Who Died with COVID-19 - United States, February 12-May 18, 2020



14. States Divided: The Implications of American Federalism for COVID-19



15. Shelter-In-Place Orders Reduced COVID-19 Mortality and Reduced The Rate Of Growth In Hospitalizations



16. Strong Social Distancing Measures in the United States Reduced the COVID-19 Growth Rate



17. Understanding COVID-19 Risks and Vulnerabilities among Black Communities in America: The Lethal Force of Syndemics





18. Early Signs Indicate That COVID-19 is Exacerbating Gender Inequality in the Labor Force



19. Visualizing the Geographic and Demographic Distribution of COVID-19


Part V. Latin America and Africa


20. In the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil, Do Brown Lives Matter?"



21. The Colliding Epidemics of COVID-19, Ebola, and Measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo



22. Africa in the Path of Covid-19


Part VI. Resolution


23. Why do countries respond differently to COVID-19? A comparative study of Sweden, China, France, and Japan
    
24. How Pandemics End