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

1st Edition

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... Read more

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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