Viruses, Vaccines, and Antivirals: Why Politics Matters

Raj Chari; Isabel Rozas

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Viruses, Vaccines, and Antivirals: Why Politics Matters

Raj Chari and Isabel Rozas

Volume 1 in the series Viral Politics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110743609

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About this book

This short book brings together novel cross-interdisciplinary investigation from both natural and social science, representing a true hybrid across disciplines examining the ‘politics’ and ‘science’ of COVID-19. Viruses, Vaccines, and Antivirals: Why Politics Matters considers the dynamics surrounding viruses, proposed vaccines, and antiviral therapies, contextualizing what governments have done during the COVID-19 crisis.

The four basic phases of a pandemic are considered with a strong focus on COVID-19, namely the anticipating and early virus detection, containment strategies, policies to control and mitigate the spread of the virus and policies aimed at opening up society. Viruses, Vaccines, and Antivirals: Why Politics Matters examines policy developments throughout these phases in key nations worldwide and puts forward a blueprint for countries developing public policies to deal with a pandemic.

The first academic book to look at COVID-19 that incorporates thinking from both a social science and a scientific perspective
Contextualises the activities of governments around the world
A blueprint for a strong and focused set of public policies

Author / Editor information

Raj Chari is a Professor of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, focusing on comparative public policy. His work investigates transparency policies in modern democracies (including lobbying regulation) and the relationship between business and politics (in areas including privatization and competition policy.). Some of his previous work has also examined parties and elections.

Isabel Rozas is Professor in Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin. After working as a researcher at the Medicinal Chemistry Institute (CSIC, Spain) for 14 years, she moved to the School of Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin in 2000 as a Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry. In 2003, she became director of the Medicinal Chemistry course; in 2005, was elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin; in 2006, she became Senior Lecturer, and in 2007 was elected by her colleagues as Head of Organic, Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, a position that she held for three years. In 2010, she became Professor. She has held several positions at the School of Chemistry in TCD: during the years 2011-2014 she was Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning, in 2015-2016 Director of Research. Since 2018 she has been the Director of Global Relations.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of graphs Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Chapter 1 Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Viruses, antivirals and vaccines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 3 Conceptualizing the four phases of a state’s public policy responses during a pandemic: anticipating, containing, controlling and opening-up Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter 4 Demonstrating the strength of the typology: examining key countries globally Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Chapter 5 Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Appendix A Supplemental information on methods of analysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and scholars of Politics, Sociology, Health Studies, and the sciences in general. Practitioners and policy makers.
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 129
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 21
- Coloured Illustrations: 21
- Tables: 3
Keywords: COVID-19; Pandemics; Viral Politics; Vaccines; Antivirals

eBook

Published: October 11, 2021
ISBN: 9783110743609

Hardcover

Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110743586

Paperback

Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110764840