ID - 131910144 TI - The Making of a Pandemic : Social, Political, and Psychological Perspectives on Covid-19 PY - 2022 SN - 9783031049644 9783031049637 9783031049651 9783031049668 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Psychology KW - Hygiene. Public health. Protection KW - Psychiatry KW - Human medicine KW - medische psychologie KW - geneeskunde KW - gezondheidszorg KW - klinische psychologie KW - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 KW - -COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 KW - -Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020 KW - -Aspectes psicològics KW - Condicions socials KW - Política governamental. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131910144 AB - The Making of a Pandemic provides a systematic account of how societal and psychological forces shaped the Covid-19 pandemic. The first part focuses on how biological and societal factors interact to create a pandemic. The second part explores how characteristics of the American economy, the American approach to public health, and domestic and international inequality combined to prolong the pandemic, hamper mitigation efforts, and arouse opposition to cooperation with public health measures. The third part examines the psychological processes that led to resistance to efforts to mitigate the pandemic and linked the resistance to right-wing ideologies. The book concludes by looking at the limits of the technical and medical reforms others have proposed to protect us from repetitions of the Covid-19 disaster and by calling for a "deep confrontation" with the societal and psychological factors that created and shaped the pandemic. Comprehensive framework for understanding how sociological, political, and psychological factors interacted with biomedical factors to produce the Covid-19 disaster Essential reader for understanding how to prevent future pandemics Explores the sources of the widespread resistance to cooperating with mitigation efforts. ER -