The Making of a Pandemic

Social, Political, and Psychological Perspectives on Covid-19
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-04963-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 260 g

Reihe: SpringerBriefs in Psychology

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ehrenreich, John

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 2. The Revenge of the Microbes.- Chapter 3. From Outbreak to Pandemic.- Chapter 4. Two Peas in a Pod: Pandemic and Global Warming.- Chapter 5. The Great Tradeoff: Public Health vs. the Economy.- Chapter 6. The Cost of Inequality.- Chapter 7. The Crooked Timber of Humanity.- Chapter 8. The Fourth Horseman.

Über Autor(innen)

John Ehrenreich has doctorates in biology and psychology. He is Professor Emeritus at SUNY-Old Westbury, where he taught for many years. He has written widely on issues at the intersection of biology, psychology, sociology, and social policy. His previous books include The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics (with Barbara Ehrenreich and the staff of Health-PAC), The Cultural Crisis of Modern Medicine (edited), The Altruistic Imagination: A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States, and Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream.