The Pandemic in Britain av Sean (University of the West of England UK) Creaven

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<P>This book offers a political analysis and sociological critique of the UK government¿s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, interpreting the inadequacies of government policy with regard to COVID-19 as the results of neoliberal ideology, the protection of corporate interests, Brexit nationalism, and the peculiarities of a British model of capitalism based on international trade and labour market precarity. </P><P>Arguing that institutionalized corporate-capitalist control of state and science generates new and growing public health risks, and that consumer-driven individualism has eroded community life and the protections this might offer against pandemics, the author contends that the UK government¿s catastrophic response to the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of peculiarly British socioeconomic and political phenomena.</P><I><P>The Pandemic in Britain</I> will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy and politics with interests in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as neolib