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Managing Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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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 ...
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  • 13 June 2023
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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.

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Price: $127.95
Pages: 226
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
Publication Date: 13 June 2023
ISBN: 9781447365242
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: MEDICAL / Health Policy, Public health and preventive medicine, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Social discrimination and social justice
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"The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to reassess how we understand concepts like risk, uncertainty, trust and hope. This book draws on both classic and contemporary texts to theorise how these and related themes played out." Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford

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