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Pandemics: The Basics - The Basics (Paperback)
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Pandemics: The Basics - The Basics (Paperback)
Series: The Basics
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This book provides an engaging, jargon-free introduction to the
threat of global pandemics, offering an overview of the many
origins and triggers of pandemic events. It covers the impacts
generated by novel infectious disease outbreaks across various
dimensions - from social and ethical to medical and political, from
media to economic and legal implications. The author discusses the
preparedness strategies developed globally, the lessons learned
from various outbreaks and the mitigation measures deployed - from
quarantine and social distancing to data sharing and surveillance
systems - including their unintended impacts. While the risk of
global pandemics is certainly intensely debated by the scientific
community, and increasingly by policy makers at various levels, the
threat is hardly discussed in the public domain. It only permeates
the media during crisis events, such as during the SARS outbreak in
2003, the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014-15, and most notably
the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic crisis. This book is thus
highly timely and topical. It has a global scope, whilst at times
zooming in on the implications of pandemic risk and mitigation for
the Global North or the Global South. Given the interdisciplinarity
of the topic, this book will be of great interest to a wider
non-academic audience, as well as students from a range of subjects
including politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, and
international development, along with entry-level medical students
keen to widen their appreciation of the social dimensions of the
medical work they set out to conduct.
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