Managing Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Global Policies, Narratives and Practices

Andy Alaszewski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

226 Seiten

2024
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-6525-9 (ISBN)

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This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making and shows how its use and misuse has shaped policy makers' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in a range of countries.

The past 30 years have seen risk become a major field of study, most recently with the COVID-19 pandemic positioning it at the centre of public awareness, yet there is limited understanding of how risk can and should be used in policy making.

This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making, including its role in rhetoric to legitimise decisions and choices.

Using risk as a framework, it examines how policy makers in a range of countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and explains why some were more successful than others.

Andy Alaszewski is Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent. He is a social scientist who has specialised in the study of health risk and society, and is the Founding Editor of the international journal 'Health, Risk and Society’.

Foreword: Jens Zinn

Preface

1. Introduction: Risk as a Key Feature of Late Modern Societies

Part 1: Responding to the Challenges of the Pandemic

2. Managing Uncertainty: Framing COVID-19

3. The Risks of COVID-19: Probability, Categorisation and Outcomes

4. Communicating Risk: Public Health Messaging

Part 2: Mitigating Risk Through Science and Technology

5. ‘Following the Science’: Expertise and Risk

6. Risk Work To Maintain Services During the Pandemic

Part 3: Risk Narratives

7. Pandemic Narratives: Telling Stories About COVID-19 and Its Risks

8. Contesting Risk: Conspiracy Theories

9. Hindsight: Inquiries and the Blame Game

Part 4: Reflections on the Pandemic and Risk

10. Conclusion: Risk and the Pandemic

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2024
Zusatzinfo	9 Tables, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4473-6525-9 / 1447365259
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-6525-9 / 9781447365259
Zustand	Neuware