Research Catalog

Title

The science and politics fo Covid-19 : how scientists should tackle global crises / Michel Claessens.

Author

Claessens, Michel

Publication

• Cham : Springer, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xiv, 261 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

This book is a fresh and readable account of the Covid-19 pandemic and how scientists and medical doctors are helping governments to manage the crisis. The book contains interviews and exchanges with dozens of scientists, doctors, experts, government representatives, and journalists. Why do some of the most scientifically advanced countries have the highest Covid-19 mortality? During the pandemic, the research community has been at the heart of--and actor in--a global scandal. Why has science failed? With the help of numerous testimonies from China, France, the UK and the USA in particular, the book provides an insider's view on this major crisis. Although the governments of these countries based their Covid-19 strategy on science, scientists failed to have a decisive influence on decision-makers--except in China--, which created genuine "time bombs." The accelerated development of vaccines does not erase past months' errors. The crisis led to the development of "science politics" at an unprecedented rate. More worryingly, experts themselves acknowledge that they did not rise to the challenge. Covid-19 also highlighted the weakness of democratic regimes and the power of technocapitalism. Countries pulled down their blinds, locked their doors, and promoted national approaches rather than international cooperation. The author proposes to set up an international framework on health risk to co-construct decision-making. He advocates political distancing in order to put the basics first: develop science, fight ignorance.--back cover

Subject

• COVID-19 (Disease)
• Health promotion
• Sociology
• Medical policy
• Epidemiology
• Virology

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 22-3743

ISBN

• 3030778630
• 9783030778637

OCLC

1250309542

Author

Claessens, Michel, author.

Title

The science and politics fo Covid-19 : how scientists should tackle global crises / Michel Claessens.

Publisher

Cham : Springer, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3743