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The Covid-19 Reader The Science and What It Says About the Social

Edited By William Cockerham, Geoffrey Cockerham Copyright 2021
    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages
    by Routledge
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    This reader offers some of the most important writing to date from the science of COVID-19 and what science says about its spread and social implications. The readings have been carefully selected, introduced, and interpreted for an introductory or graduate student readership by a distinguished medical sociology and political science team. While some of the early science was inaccurate, lacking sufficient data, or otherwise incomplete, the author team has selected the most important and reliable early work for teachers and students in courses on medical sociology, public health, nursing, infectious diseases, epidemiology, anthropology of medicine, sociology of health and illness, social aspects of medicine, comparative health systems, health policy and management, health behaviors, and community health. Global in scope, the book tells the story of what happened and how COVID-19 was dealt with. Much of this material is in clinical journals, normally not considered in the social sciences, which are nonetheless informative and authoritative for student and faculty readers. Their selection and interpretation for students makes this concise reader an essential teaching source about COVID-19. An accompanying online resource on the book’s Routledge web page will update and evolve by providing links to new readings as the science develops.

    Contents

    Part I. Introduction

      1. Preparing for the Next Pandemic

        2. Michael T. Osterholm

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

        3. Renyi Zhang, Yixin Li, Annie L. Zhangc, Yuan Wang and Mario J. Molina

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

        4. Monica Gandhi, Deborah S. Yokoe and Diane V. Havlir

        Part II. The Origin in China

      4. Pangolins Harbor SARS-CoV-2-Related Coronaviruses

        5. Guan-Zhu Han

      5. The Epidemiological and Clinical Features of COVID-19 and Lessons from this Global Infectious Public Health Event

        6. Huilan Tu, Sheng Tu, Shiqi Gao, Anwen Shao and Jifang Sheng

      6. Authoritarianism, Outbreaks, and Information Politics

        7. Matthew Kavanagh

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

        8. Raj Verma

        Part III. Europe

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

        9. Gianfranco Spiteri, James Fielding, Michaela Diercke et al.

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

        10. Krithi Ravi

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

        11. Jon Pierre

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

        12. F. Jung, V. Krieger, F.T. Hufert, and J.-H. Kupper

        　

        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. Anne Schuchat

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

        14. Jonathan M. Wortham et al.

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

        15. Donald F. Kettl

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

        16. Wei Lyu and George L. Wehby

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

        17. Charles Courtemanche, Joseph Garuccio, Anh Le, Joshua Pinkston, and Aaron Yelowitz

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

        18. Tonia Poteat, Gregorio A. Millett, LaRon E. Nelson and Chris Beyrer

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

        19. Linda Christin Lanivar et al.

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

        20. Patrick Denice et al.

        　

        Part V. Latin America and Africa

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

        21. Helena Ribeiro, Viviana Mendes Lima and Eliseu Alves Waldman

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

        22. Jean B Nachega, Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, John Otshudiema, Alimuddin Zumla, Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tam-Fum

      22. Africa in the Path of Covid-19

        23. Wafaa M. El-Sadr and Jessica Justman

        Part VI. Resolution

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

        24. Bo Yan, Xiaomin Zhang, Long Wu, Heng Zhu, and Bin Chen

      24. How Pandemics End

    Gina Kolata

    Biography

    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).

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