The origins of COVID-19 : China and global capitalism / Li Zhang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Li (Assistant professor), author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy.

COVID-19 (Disease).

China.

COVID-19 (Disease)--China.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy--China.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--China.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Capitalism--Health aspects--China.

Physical Description:

185 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"A new strain of coronavirus emerged sometime in November 2019, and within weeks a cluster of patients began to be admitted to hospitals in Wuhan with severe pneumonia, most of them linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. China's seemingly effective containment of the first stage of the epidemic, in glaring contrast with the uncontrolled spread in Europe and the United States, was heralded as a testament to the Chinese Communist Party's unparalleled command over the biomedical sciences, population, and economy. Conversely, much academic and public debate about the origins of the virus focuses on the supposedly "backwards" cultural practice of consuming wild animals and the perceived problem of authoritarianism suppressing information about the outbreak until it was too late. The Origins of COVID-19, by Li Zhang, shifts debate away from narrow cultural, political, or biomedical frameworks, emphasizing that we must understand the origins of emerging diseases with pandemic potential (such as SARS and COVID-19) in the more complex and structural entanglements of state-making, science and technology, and global capitalism. She argues that both narratives, that of China's victory and the racist depictions of its culpability, do not address-and even aggravate-these larger forces that degrade the environment and increase the human-wildlife interface through which novel pathogens spill over into humans and may rapidly expand into global pandemics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelude

Emergence

Emergency

Surge

Victory

Persistence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Zhang, Li (Assistant professor). Origins of COVID-19.

ISBN:

9781503630178

150363017X

OCLC:

1242910965