COVID-19 Volume I Global Pandemic, Societal Responses, Ideological Solutions

COVID-19: Volume I: Global Pandemic, Societal Responses, Ideological Solutions (The COVID-19 Pandemic Series) by J. Michael Ryan
English | Dec 28, 2020 | ISBN: 0367695146, 0367695154 | 290 pages | PDF | 16 MB
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the associated COVID-19 pandemic, is perhaps the greatest threat to life, and lifestyles, the world has known in more than a century. The scholarship included here provides critical insights into the ethics and ideologies, inequalities, and changed social understandings that lie at the heart of this pandemic. This volume maps out the ways in which the pandemic has impacted (most often disproportionately) societies, the successes and failures of means used to combat the virus, and the considerations and future possibilities - both positive and negative - that lie ahead. While the pandemic has brought humanity together in some noteworthy ways, it has also laid bare many of the systemic inequalities that lie at the foundation of our global society. This volume is a significant step toward better understanding these impacts.