Fighting the ffirst wave : why the coronavirus was tackled so differently across the globe / Peter Baldwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldwin, Peter (Director at Intercedent), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

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

COVID-19 (Disease).

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 385 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries have responded very differently and some have clearly fared much better than others. Peter Baldwin uncovers the reasons why in this definitive account of the global politics of pandemic. He shows that how nations responded depended above all on the political tools available - how firmly could the authorities order citizens' lives and how willingly would they be obeyed? In Asia, nations quarantined the infected and their contacts. In the Americas and Europe they shut down their economies, hoping to squelch the virus's spread. Others, above all Sweden, responded with a light touch, putting their faith in social consensus over coercion. Whether citizens would follow their leaders' requests and how soon they would tire of their demands were crucial to hopes of taming the pandemic.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: One Threat, Many Responses

Chapter 1 Science, Politics, and History: Do They Explain the Variety of Approaches to Covid-19?

Chapter 2 New Dogs, Old Tricks: Fighting Covid-19 with Ancient Preventive Tactics

Chapter 3 The Politics of Prevention: How State and Citizen Interacted, Battling the Virus

Chapter 4 What Was Done?: Act One of the Pandemic

Chapter 5 Why the Preventive Playing Field Was Not Level: Geography, Prosperity, Society

Chapter 6 Where and Why Science Mattered: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Herd Immunity, Asymptomatic Carriers, Superspreading, and Masks

Chapter 7 From State to Citizen: The Individualization of Public Health

Chapter 8 Who Is Responsible for Our Health?: How Prevention Was Enforced

Chapter 9 Difficult Decisions in Hard Times: Trade-offs between Being Safe and Being Solvent

Conclusion: Public Health and Public Goods: The State in a Post-pandemic World

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781009006286

1009006282

9781009006484

1009006487

9781009000222

1009000225

OCLC:

1242440237