COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic

by Barry Cooper and Marco Navarro-Génie

Book Overview

COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic explores the political and social responses that have been tributary to the medical responses during the COVID-19 pandemic.What is a moral panic? The term was introduced by Stanley Cohen in his 1972 book, Folk Devils and Moral Panics, which was based on his PhD dissertation in sociology written at the London School of Economics. It is, in short, a relatively recent term in social science. The focus of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098789546X
• ISBN13: 9780987895462
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Frontier Centre for Public Policy
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"