Full Description
This book examines the Covid-19 pandemic from a social, cultural and philosophical perspective. In a unique and innovative approach, it addresses its subject by recounting the authors' thoughts during the two long years of the pandemic, from 2020 to 2022. A pandemic reveals numerous tensions in society: forces that remain hidden during prosperous times, such as fear, violence, or the devaluation of human rights, emerge as significant factors during a social crisis. A pandemic is, therefore, useful as a phenomenon for studying human weaknesses and for evaluating the development of humanitarian crises when few people care about appearances, and there is little to hide because life itself is in the balance. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and scholars of biomedical and social sciences, as well as those working in the fields of public health and political philosophy.
Contents
Introduction - Modern Life, Technological Advances, and Medicine. Ethical Norms, How They Change, and the Pursuit of Survival. The Individual and the Crowd - The Pandemic- Type of Society: The Individual, the Crowd, and the Authorities - The Post- Pandemic- Type of Society: The Individual, the Crowd, and the Authorities - Conclusions - Postscript - Index.
