Full Description
This edited collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the key health challenges faced by individuals, communities, and governments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking the Danish context as a starting point, it extrapolates to discuss the international relevance of a range of issues.
The book contains 4 parts:
Part 1 looks at the societal reactions to COVID-19, discussing issues around health communication, legitimacy, ethics, and bio-politics
Part 2 approaches the health and well-being of specific groups during the crisis
Part 3 assesses how the crisis stimulated sustainable solutions to key problems, from digital methods for delivery of healthcare, to changes to the food supply chain
Part 4 looks broadly at how historical developments in the study of epidemiology and current scientific perspectives enable the understanding and, to some extent, management of the COVID-19 pandemic
With contributions from scholars across the social sciences, health sciences, and humanities, each chapter provides not only insight into a particular issue, but also the theories and scientific methods applied to understand and overcome the COVID-19 crisis. It will be important reading for both scholars and policy makers, informing an appropriate response to future health crises.
Contents
1.Introductory thoughts on exploring the COVID-19 crisis through interdisciplinary lenses. Part 1.Societal reactions: Communication and legitimacy in a time of crisis. 2.Face masks in the Danish COVID-19 context: A representative of the crisis and communication strategies. 3. Pastoral manifestations of legitimacy in a welfare state in crisis. 4.Common ethical principles and biopolitics in times of COVID-19. Part 2.People and everyday life: Intimacy and care when the crisis hits. 5.The inclusive potentials of extraordinary life: Young disabled lives in pandemic times. 6.Ageing abjection from a COVID-19 crisis perspective. 7.Challenges to relationship intimacy during COVID-19: LATT (living apart together transnationally couples). Part 3.Urgent changes and sustainable solutions: Crisis as a gamechanger for sustainable development? 8.COVID-19: A disruption of interprofessional collaboration in health care 9.Digital vigilance: Learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic. 10. COVID-19 in the meat industry: Health and sustainable development in the food sector? 11.The COVID-19 lockdown and pathways for sustainable transition. Part 4.Development of knowledge: Scientific changes in epidemiology and microbiology and lasting effects. 12.Framing the roots of critical COVID-19 public health concepts: Intersecting history and epidemiology. 13.The gut feeling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
