Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Origins of COVID-19Condition: NewEAN: 9781503630178ISBN: 9781503630178Publisher: Stanford BriefsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/03/2021Item Height: 203mmItem Length: 127mmAuthor: Li ZhangLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: China and Global CapitalismISBN-10: 150363017XDescription: A new strain of coronavirus emerged sometime in November 2019, and within weeks a cluster of patients began to be admitted to hospitals in Wuhan with severe pneumonia, most of them linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. China's seemingly effective containment of the first stage of the epidemic, in glaring contrast with the uncontrolled spread in Europe and the United States, was heralded as a testament to the Chinese Communist Party's unparalleled command over the biomedical sciences, population, and economy. Conversely, much academic and public debate about the origins of the virus focuses on the supposedly "backwards" cultural practice of consuming wild animals and the perceived problem of authoritarianism suppressing information about the outbreak until it was too late. The Origins of COVID-19, by Li Zhang, shifts debate away from narrow cultural, political, or biomedical frameworks, emphasizing that we must understand the origins of emerging diseases with pandemic potential (such as SARS and COVID-19) in the more complex and structural entanglements of state-making, science and technology, and global capitalism. She argues that both narratives, that of China's victory and the racist depictions of its culpability, do not address—and even aggravate—these larger forces that degrade the environment and increase the human-wildlife interface through which novel pathogens spill over into humans and may rapidly expand into global pandemics.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Origins of COVID-19
Title: The Origins of COVID-19
EAN: 9781503630178
ISBN: 9781503630178
Release Date: 08/03/2021
Release Year: 2021
Subtitle: China and Global Capitalism
ISBN-10: 150363017X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 196 Pages
Publication Name: Origins of Covid-19 : China and Global Capitalism
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Public Health, Disease & Health Issues
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Li Zhang
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback