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COVID-19

Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distancing

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Authors:
  1. Peter Murphy

    1. La Trobe University, Bundorra, Australia

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  • Offers cutting-edge analyses of the social and policy dimensions of the Covid-19 pandemic, and its impact on mortality, society and economy
  • Provides a highly original critical assessment of the public policy responses and background cultural ‘markers’ that prompted action by medical specialists, politicians and the public alike
  • Engages in scholarly literature across the social sciences and humanities in order to extend our understanding of the responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in insightful new ways
  • Comprises a valuable new resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences, the humanities and medical sciences. Readers will include undergraduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and academic teachers, and also public policy experts and the interested lay public

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Social Distance

    • Peter Murphy
    Pages 1-38

  3. Public Policy

    • Peter Murphy
    Pages 39-83

  4. Social Mood

    • Peter Murphy
    Pages 85-105

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 107-122
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About this book

COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It details the sociological aspects of the spread of the virus, the role played by social distancing in virus mitigation, and the comparative effect of social proximity and distance on national anti-viral behavior. Peter Murphy discusses various public policy approaches to the pandemic and their successes and failures. In this engaging analysis, he investigates the way that contemporary societies think about risk, threat and harm, and how social mood affected the response to COVID-19.

Authors and Affiliations

  • La Trobe University, Bundorra, Australia

    Peter Murphy

About the author

Peter Murphy is the author of The Political Economy of Prosperity (2020), Limited Government (2018) Auto-Industrialism (2017), Universities and Innovation Economies (2015) and The Collective Imagination (2012), among other books. He is Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences at La Trobe University and in The Cairns Institute at James Cook University, Australia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: COVID-19

  • Book Subtitle: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distancing

  • Authors: Peter Murphy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7514-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7513-6Published: 20 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7516-7Published: 20 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7514-3Published: 19 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 122

  • Topics: Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Sociology, general, Health Policy

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