Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times: Social Control Policies

✍ Scribed by Hellman, Matilda (editor), Kettunen, Tom (editor), Salmivaara, Saara (editor), Stoneham, Janne (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

<em>Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times</em> looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
Governance and social control during pandemics
PART I: Communicating a pandemic
1 The role of the Italian press in times of pandemics: old features in the face of a new risk
2 Re-vitalising discourses of solidarity: governing populations in times of uncertainty and crisis
3 Calm chess player or self-aware administrator? How the Finnish and Swedish public health agencies addressed the public during the corona outbreak
PART II: Autonomy, rights, and choice
4 A battle over birth: contestations, lived experiences and the restrictive policy of Finnish birth care in the Covid-19 pandemic
5 Stuck between health-related and socioeconomic risks. Managing the pandemic in India
PART III: Political and ideological struggles
6 The effects of a hegemonising negationist narrative in Brazil
7 When counting counts: politics of quantification and the government of Covid-19 in São Paulo
PART IV: Framing control policy options
8 The framing of harms to children and youth due to the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden, Finland and Ontario, Canada in relation to school lockdowns
9 Nudge: behavioural science, normative discourse, and the art of consent
PART V: Summary and conclusions
10 Governance in pandemic times: conclusions
Index