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Book/Printed Material Sweden's Pandemic Experiment

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Title

  • Sweden's Pandemic Experiment

Summary

  • "This book considers Sweden's pandemic management which differed so significantly from much of the rest of the world it provoked intense and wide-reaching interest, curiosity and criticism. Trans-disciplinary Swedish authors the humanities, life sciences, social sciences, and cultural studies use a variety of tools to mine deeper into some of the central elements and dimensions in their country's pandemic management such as understandings of freedom, the execution of power, denialism, exceptionalism, patriotism, the role of expertise, and trust in the national state to giving a deeper understanding of Sweden's decisions, failures, successes, and the lessons to be learned. Aimed at readers with interest in global health and politics it will also be of interest in disciplines such as virology,epidemiology, history, cultural studies, ethics, media studies, medicine and economics"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Bergmann, Sigurd, 1956- editor
  • Lindström, Martin (Professor of social medicine), editor

Created / Published

  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Contents

  • Sweden Stumbles along the third way / Peter Baldwin -- In the rupture between this and another world to come : introductory remarks on pandemic emergency and Sweden's response / Sigurd Bergmann and Martin Lindström -- A timeline of events : December 2019 to February 2022 / Sigurd Bergmann -- An expert authority without real experts? Deliberate disinformation from the Swedish public health agency on the SARS-CoV-2 infection's spread in the population / Anders Vahlne -- The COVID-19-pandemic and the Swedish strategy : central aspects of the implementation of the strategy in relation to evidence-based medicine / Martin Lindström -- The Swedish COVID-19 response : from poorly judged utilitarism to history revisionism and the tragedy of the commons / Emil Bergholtz -- Learning from failure : mastering a pandemic in the triad of science, politics and trust / Sigurd Bergmann -- Epidemiology and COVID-19 : why numbers are important and can be misleading / Nele Brusselaers -- The political economy of estimating immunity levels / Rodney Edvinsson -- Children at the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic / Johanna Höög -- The biopolitics of herd immunity / Lapo Lappin -- Collaborators, supporters, and science judges : how trust in the public health agency's messaging was achieved / Kajsa Klein -- Sweden unmasked : reading state and society through the pandemic / Jens Stilhoff Sörensen -- Sweden's preventive medicine : a drastic end to a 280-year long story of success / Gunnar Steineck.

Headings

  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Sweden
  • -  COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy--Sweden
  • -  COVID-19 (Disease)--Epidemiology--Sweden
  • -  Medical policy--Sweden

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • RA644.C67

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2022036704

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

  • epub
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bergmann, Sigurd, Editor. Sweden's Pandemic Experiment. editeds by Lindström, Martin Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2022036704/.

APA citation style:

Bergmann, S., Lindström, M., ed. (2023) Sweden's Pandemic Experiment. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2022036704/.

MLA citation style:

Bergmann, Sigurd, Editor. Sweden's Pandemic Experiment. ed by Lindström, Martin Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2022036704/>.