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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Front Matter
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Part IV
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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.
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Book Title: The Making of a Pandemic
Book Subtitle: Social, Political, and Psychological Perspectives on Covid-19
Authors: John Ehrenreich
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04964-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04963-7Published: 31 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04964-4Published: 30 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-8363
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 150
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Health Care Management