{"product_id":"105439","title":"Geography of Epidemics ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYHQoEuCGj2PUYzYTYOgxKZDkOBqS.png?v=1765125836\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Geography of Epidemics \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/112066536\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn an age of never-ending pandemics, geographic analysis offers answers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, malaria, Spanish flu, Ebola virus, AIDS, coronavirus… … .\u003cbr\u003e In any era or region, epidemics strike the world at unpredictable moments and do not easily disappear.\u003cbr\u003e Rather, diseases that were once endemic are now spreading rapidly through the tight web of globalization.\u003cbr\u003e Now, a strange disease somewhere on Earth is soon a disease in our own backyard, and experts are predicting countless pandemics ahead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why do infectious diseases continue to emerge despite the fact that global civilization has become so homogeneously sophisticated, incomparable to the era when water supply and sewage systems and waste disposal were inadequate? Despite such rapid advancements in science and technology, why is it that eradicating disease remains as elusive as ever? When will we finally find a path forward to restore the lives upended by infectious diseases?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book argues that the existing perspective of relying on science and technology to find solutions to the causes of infectious diseases, such as the environment and personal hygiene, is always lagging behind, and that new answers that go beyond existing methods are needed to understand and overcome infectious diseases.\u003cbr\u003e The key is to focus on the geographic networks and maps of health inequalities that cut across individuals' lives.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Cholera with Imperialism and the Modern City Created by Cholera\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e Cholera, an endemic disease of the Ganges River basin in India\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e Cholera swept the world, following the British Empire's armies and merchant ships.\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e The modern city created by cholera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 2: A Hatred That Spreads Faster Than Typhoid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e Pre-modern disease, typhoid fever\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e The Irish Famine and the Exodus\u003cbr\u003e 3. \u003cbr\u003eUnwelcome people\u003cbr\u003e 4.\u003cbr\u003e Typhoid epidemic: From prejudice to fear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 3: Reading Orientalism in the Coronavirus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e The coronavirus that hit 2020\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e The West's contemptuous gaze and the East's shrinking\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e Orientalism Resurfaces Amid Coronavirus Fears\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 4: The Spanish Flu: A Hatred That Wasn't as Great as Fear\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e Viruses smaller than bacteria\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e The epidemic that killed the most people in the shortest period of time\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e The United States couldn't have been a hotbed of the Spanish flu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Malaria: From a Global Disease to a Tropical Endemic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e Malaria has become a tropical endemic disease\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e The international community's efforts to eradicate malaria have been both hot and cold.\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e Can malaria be eradicated?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 6: The Tuberculosis Defense Line Collapsed Along with the Former Soviet Union\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e Tuberculosis: From a Beautiful Disease to a Disease of the Poor\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e Humanity's fight against tuberculosis\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e The collapse of the Soviet Union and the return of tuberculosis with greater force\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: The World That Pushed the Ebola Emergency Button\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e Ebola virus, the herald of death\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e The Ebola virus that delved into bad politics\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e The world gripped by Ebola fear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 8 AIDS and the Right to Treatment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e Prejudice attached to AIDS\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e Big Pharma and Intellectual Property\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e The David and Goliath Battle Over AIDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 9: COVID-19, Failed Markets, and the Summoned Nation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.\u003cbr\u003e The glory of advanced nations crumbled helplessly in the face of COVID-19.\u003cbr\u003e 2.\u003cbr\u003e The pandemic has left a gap in the nation's healthcare services.\u003cbr\u003e 3.\u003cbr\u003e A country summoned by Corona\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e main\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e The region is not only a space where diseases emerge and spread, but also a space where they are reproduced, processed, and imagined.\u003cbr\u003e Understanding the complex dynamics of these epidemics in localized settings is, in some ways, as important as identifying their causes and treatments. \u003cbr\u003eBecause our political, economic, and intellectual desires, or our vain beliefs and preconceptions, can amplify the epidemic and the crisis it causes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Entering\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Thames River flows through London from east to west and into the North Sea, serving as a water source for most of London.\u003cbr\u003e Since the Industrial Revolution, the river has been heavily polluted by the wastewater from the steel, chemical, coal, and textile industries, and has been the destination of human and animal excrement, slaughterhouse waste, the foul-smelling filth of hospitals and tanneries, and sometimes even corpses.42 London's meager sewer system was little more than a long pipe filled with the waste from each household, which frequently clogged and had to be dug out regularly.\u003cbr\u003e The Thames River, which runs through London, had a nauseating stench.\u003cbr\u003e Londoners washed their clothes, bathed, and got their drinking water from the foul-smelling Thames River.43 These were ideal conditions for the spread of cholera.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e---From \"Chapter 1: Cholera with Imperialism, the Modern City Created by Cholera\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contagious diseases, then and now, are a primal fear that evokes thoughts of death.\u003cbr\u003e The occurrence of disease is a biological phenomenon, but responses to disease are socially constructed.\u003cbr\u003e The public, feeling fear and anxiety, asks, “Who caused this anxiety? Who is responsible?” and mistakenly believes that they can escape danger and fear by rejecting and condemning the individuals or groups they perceive as having caused this fear.\u003cbr\u003e The more seriously people perceive danger, the more they divide problems into good and evil, defining others as evil and placing them outside the boundaries of the self.\u003cbr\u003e Situations of danger or fear can amplify hostility and disgust toward others and lead to contempt or attack.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Chapter 2: Hatred Spreads Faster Than Typhoid\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs an Irish immigrant and a woman, Mary was heavily exposed to media coverage in the United States and suffered serious human rights violations.44 Prejudice is a negative attitude toward members of a certain group, which can easily lead to discriminatory behavior.\u003cbr\u003e Discrimination is a type of power technique that sets the boundary between normal and deviant (abnormal), and in most cases, it is caused by an imbalance of power between the prejudiced and the discriminated.\u003cbr\u003e Especially when factors of discrimination such as race, class, and gender are combined rather than existing independently, the prejudice and discrimination against them reveal their violence more shamelessly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Chapter 2: Hatred Spreads Faster Than Typhoid\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e China was the perfect target to blame for the COVID-19 outbreak. \u003cbr\u003eWhen the media reported that the first case of COVID-19 was found in Wuhan, China, they attributed the outbreak to the unsanitary and underdeveloped food culture of the Chinese people.\u003cbr\u003e Westerners have expressed discomfort and disgust with Chinese people, and Asians in general, viewing them as carriers of germs that infect their healthy counterparts, and as objects to be despised and avoided.\u003cbr\u003e China, which emerged as the world's factory after globalization, has come into economic competition with the West.\u003cbr\u003e Neither the view that China, with its world's largest foreign exchange reserves, would be a savior for bankrupt Western economies after the global financial crisis, nor the China threat theory that China's rising economic growth could threaten Western societies, at least did not doubt China's physical power.\u003cbr\u003e In this situation, fears about COVID-19 easily shifted to blame and attacks on China.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e---From Chapter 3, Reading Orientalism in the Coronavirus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Countries that participated in World War I, such as the United States and Britain, strictly controlled the press to avoid reporting on the influenza pandemic that occurred in the spring of 1918 to avoid demoralizing their soldiers.\u003cbr\u003e However, Spain, which did not participate in the war at the time and remained neutral, reported extensively on the influenza epidemic.\u003cbr\u003e This led to the name Spanish flu, even though the first cases did not occur in Spain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Chapter 4: The Spanish Flu, a Hatred That Wasn't as Great as Fear\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As humanity experienced the Spanish flu, it trembled in fear of epidemic diseases, just like in the Middle Ages.\u003cbr\u003e During three pandemics, the influenza virus infected people regardless of race or class.\u003cbr\u003e It did not discriminate between those with power and those without, rich and poor. \u003cbr\u003eIt didn't even consider race or nationality.\u003cbr\u003e Influenza was equal.\u003cbr\u003e However, mortality rates varied depending on where one lived.\u003cbr\u003e People in isolated Alaskan villages or African jungles who had little experience with existing influenza viruses were more vulnerable because their immune systems were weakened than those in densely populated areas who were exposed to the virus every year.\u003cbr\u003e In fact, there were several villages in Alaska where most of the Inuit population died because of a single postal worker who contracted the flu.\u003cbr\u003e Some villages in Africa were completely wiped out by the Spanish flu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Chapter 4: The Spanish Flu, a Hatred That Wasn't as Great as Fear\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Although the first cases occurred at a US military base, the United States has identified immigrant groups as the primary culprits in the origin and spread of the flu. \u003cbr\u003eThe media and academia have been searching for evidence to shift the blame for the outbreak not to the mainstream white American society, but to the socially disadvantaged poor and immigrants from other countries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Chapter 4: The Spanish Flu, a Hatred That Wasn't as Great as Fear\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thanks to quinine, European empires that had expanded into the interior of Africa needed malaria control for effective colonial rule.\u003cbr\u003e Ross, a British military doctor, marked the Anopheles mosquito breeding grounds in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, with red dots, and confirmed that mosquitoes were found evenly throughout the lowlands extending east and west, except for the central highlands.\u003cbr\u003e Based on his findings, the British colonial government implemented a policy of residential segregation in 1904, establishing hill stations in the highlands of Freetown, where the risk of malaria was low, for whites only, and designating the lowlands, where the risk of malaria was high, as residential areas for indigenous people. \u003cbr\u003eAnd by building a high-altitude railway connecting the hill station and the low-lying plains, it enabled white settlement and control of the natives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From Chapter 5: Malaria: From a Global Disease to a Tropical Endemic Disease\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The result was a great success.\u003cbr\u003e In 1939, after the end of the Boniface period, people moved to the newly developed Pontine region to farm, raise cattle and sheep, and produce high-quality cheese.\u003cbr\u003e The area was transformed into a production area for agricultural and livestock products, and malaria disappeared.\u003cbr\u003e Malaria disappeared naturally as a result of spending a huge amount of money on reclaiming wetlands, focusing more on poverty eradication than on malaria eradication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From Chapter 5: Malaria: From a Global Disease to a Tropical Endemic Disease\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The main reason pharmaceutical companies lost interest in developing a malaria vaccine was the lack of a consumer base that could afford the drug. \u003cbr\u003eIn North America and Europe, demand for malaria vaccines has declined as living conditions have improved, and poor patients in Africa and Asia have little ability to afford expensive malaria drugs, making sales unprofitable.\u003cbr\u003e In this situation, pharmaceutical companies have pushed back on the development of antimalarial drugs that are difficult, expensive, and target poor patients.\u003cbr\u003e Instead, they prioritized investing in developing drugs for high blood pressure and diabetes that were less demanding and relatively less expensive, but that could treat wealthy patients in developed countries.\u003cbr\u003e Malaria has long been ignored by poor countries due to budget constraints, pharmaceutical companies due to lack of profits, and the international community due to lack of interest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From Chapter 5: Malaria: From a Global Disease to a Tropical Endemic Disease\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePrivate companies like the Bill \u0026amp; Melinda Gates Foundation can strengthen their political and social influence by engaging in philanthropic activities, cultivating a positive reputation and public respect.\u003cbr\u003e This can be used to pursue greater profits by obtaining government protection, anti-competitive practices, and favorable legal treatment.\u003cbr\u003e Charitable activities by private companies dampen the need for increased taxes on those companies, and the transparency of fund management decreases as funds move from companies to foundations.\u003cbr\u003e This means that the tax revenue available for welfare policies to redistribute wealth will decrease.\u003cbr\u003e Even most charitable donations are not used to alleviate the financial burden on low-income people.\u003cbr\u003e As a result, private philanthropy has not helped alleviate economic inequality or poverty, but rather has reinforced economic inequality and dependency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From Chapter 5: Malaria: From a Global Disease to a Tropical Endemic Disease\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAwareness of tuberculosis also differed sharply depending on the wealth.\u003cbr\u003e People lamented the tuberculosis of a wealthy patient as an innocent misfortune, while they condemned the tuberculosis of a poor patient as a self-inflicted disaster brought on by moral depravity and lack of hygiene.\u003cbr\u003e They consoled wealthy tuberculosis patients by saying they needed to recuperate in a place with good air, while poor tuberculosis patients were thought to be spreaders of disease and should be isolated or excluded from society.\u003cbr\u003e Tuberculosis indiscriminately attacked the rich and the poor, the strong and the weak, the diligent and the lazy, but society viewed rich and poor tuberculosis patients differently.\u003cbr\u003e Of course, there were differences not only in the gaze but also in the treatment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Chapter 6: The Tuberculosis Defense Line Collapsed Along with the Former Soviet Union\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSince then, the perception that tuberculosis is a social disease rather than an individual disease has spread in Western Europe and North America.\u003cbr\u003e Concerns that tuberculosis, which was prevalent among the poor, would spread to the wealthy led to calls for the establishment of tuberculosis sanatoriums for the poor.13 Of course, this call was not made for public health reasons, but as a sort of segregation strategy to protect the wealthy upper class from poor tuberculosis patients.\u003cbr\u003e But there were no philanthropists willing to build sanatoriums for the poor.\u003cbr\u003e The establishment of a public tuberculosis sanatorium for poor tuberculosis patients was fraught with difficulties from the outset, including securing funding and selecting a site, and took a long time to realize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Chapter 6: The Tuberculosis Defense Line Collapsed Along with the Former Soviet Union\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The dichotomy between diseases in poor areas and diseases in rich areas no longer makes sense. \u003cbr\u003eThe relationship between class and tuberculosis, which inevitably exposes people to unstable living conditions, should be viewed not as a fixed one, but rather as a dynamic process that varies from time to time and situation to situation, even within a specific region, depending on the development of social and economic inequality and the level of political inclusion.\u003cbr\u003e Tuberculosis can occur anywhere, in both poor and rich countries, where poverty and socioeconomic inequality are high.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Chapter 6: The Tuberculosis Defense Line Collapsed Along with the Former Soviet Union\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Margaret Chan, who was the director-general of the World Health Organization during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak, cited poverty as the most important reason why these countries were unable to control the spread of Ebola for more than two years.\u003cbr\u003e Poverty is closely linked to bad politics.\u003cbr\u003e These countries have long suffered from political instability and civil war since independence, and their corrupt leaders have been greedy and incompetent. \u003cbr\u003eControlling infectious diseases is primarily a national responsibility and can only be successful when national functions are functioning properly.\u003cbr\u003e At the time of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, these countries were politically and economically unstable, corrupt, and had weak national systems to control and systematically manage the epidemic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Chapter 7: The World That Pushed the Ebola Emergency Button\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The reason the 2019 Ebola vaccine was able to be approved internationally so quickly is because the 2014 Ebola outbreak had sent a strong warning that globalization could spread beyond the African continent.\u003cbr\u003e International organizations such as the United Nations and many developed countries, including the United States, recognized the risk of being infected with the Ebola virus and provided financial and other support to private companies to develop an Ebola vaccine for health security.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From \"Chapter 7: The World That Pushed the Ebola Emergency Button\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAfter the discovery of HIV, which causes AIDS, AIDS research focused on finding the origin of HIV.\u003cbr\u003e This process was strongly influenced by racial bias.\u003cbr\u003e Researchers searching for the geographical origins of AIDS naturally connected their long-standing prejudices about the African continent to the unfamiliar virus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From Chapter 8: AIDS and the Right to Treatment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Big Pharma doesn't care about patients who don't have money.\u003cbr\u003e The health problems of people in developing countries are not their concern, and they have no will to solve them.\u003cbr\u003e They are particularly reluctant to develop vaccines or treatments for diseases that primarily occur in impoverished regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.\u003cbr\u003e Because there aren't many consumers willing to buy expensive medicine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ---From Chapter 8: AIDS and the Right to Treatment\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Western democratic leaders floundered, politics became divided, and policies were ineffective.57 In general, countries with a wide range of government interventions in the private sector and strong capacity to plan and implement policies responded more effectively to COVID-19 than those without such interventions.\u003cbr\u003e The COVID-19 pandemic has raised calls for a more systematic response to social risks and an expanded role for governments to protect individual lives.\u003cbr\u003e In times of crisis, it is the government's responsibility to guarantee citizens' jobs, provide welfare and medical services, and proactively respond to social risks. This is not something the market can do.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e ---From Chapter 9, “COVID-19, Failed Markets, and Summoned Nations”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhy do new epidemics keep emerging?\u003cbr\u003e Even with the advancement of science and technology, why doesn't it end easily?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn an age of never-ending pandemics, geographic analysis offers answers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, malaria, Ebola virus, AIDS, coronavirus… … .\u003cbr\u003e In any era or region, epidemics have struck the world at unpredictable moments and have not easily disappeared.\u003cbr\u003e The COVID-19 pandemic, which arrived suddenly, has now become deeply interfering with our lives, repeating mutations and resurgences every four to six months.\u003cbr\u003e Global civilization has advanced beyond comparison to the days when water supply and sewage systems and waste disposal were inadequate. Yet, why do new infectious diseases continue to emerge? Despite the rapid advancements in science and technology, why is eradicating disease as elusive as ever? When will we finally find a path forward to restore the lives disrupted by infectious diseases?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Until now, the cause of infectious diseases was considered to be a problem of individuals or specific groups. \u003cbr\u003eEven when the coronavirus was discovered, the food culture of the outbreak area was the first to come under scrutiny.\u003cbr\u003e The same goes for stories about sexually promiscuous people being more susceptible to AIDS or poor hygiene practices in poor areas being breeding grounds for infectious diseases.\u003cbr\u003e This book argues that the existing perspective of relying on science and technology to find solutions to the causes of infectious diseases, which stem from environmental and personal hygiene issues, is always lagging behind, and suggests a new solution that goes beyond existing methods to properly understand and overcome infectious diseases.\u003cbr\u003e The key is to focus on the geographic networks and maps of health inequalities that cut across individuals' lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“No one is safe until everyone is safe.”\u003cbr\u003e Health inequality: A key keyword in global health\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Examining epidemics through geographic networks reveals the path of disease. \u003cbr\u003eBy tracking where a disease originates and spreads, why the scale of damage varies from region to region, and why, even when it spreads within the same region, it is relatively mild for some people and fatal for others, we can see that “diseases are also indicators of how power relations are formed among actors within a region.”\u003cbr\u003e As the coronavirus pandemic has shown, epidemics begin by destroying the weakest members of society.\u003cbr\u003e The elderly, children, people living in poor housing conditions, those who cannot afford the cost of diagnosis or masks, those who cannot work from home, and those who cannot take time off work even when sick were the first to be exposed to risk and suffered the most.\u003cbr\u003e The extent of damage varied even across countries.\u003cbr\u003e While rich countries stockpiled vaccines to meet two to three times the population, poorer countries suffered devastating pandemics. \u003cbr\u003eThe past three years have once again demonstrated that while infectious diseases spread indiscriminately and without intent, the extent of harm is not evenly distributed depending on the safety net and life opportunities enjoyed by individuals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The phenomenon of pandemics exacerbating health inequalities is not a new finding.\u003cbr\u003e Malaria, which has either disappeared or become a minor disease in wealthy countries, still causes many casualties in poor areas.\u003cbr\u003e Tuberculosis, once a disease of class where only the wealthy were given a chance at recovery, was recommended as a treatment method that included resting in a place with good air and plenty of sunlight.\u003cbr\u003e AIDS, which is no longer a 'deadly disease' as treatment drugs become commercially available, also had a large difference in the number of deaths between the West and the African continent in the early stages of treatment development due to the high cost of the drugs.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhat's new and noteworthy is that, with global mobility and contacts becoming more frequent than ever before, not only are epidemics exacerbating health inequalities, but health inequalities are also exacerbating epidemics.\u003cbr\u003e While wealthy countries stockpiled enough COVID-19 vaccines to cover two to three times their populations, poorer countries, which lacked vaccines, saw their epidemics worsen. In the process, Delta and Omicron variants emerged, which were more transmissible and evaded existing vaccines, triggering another global pandemic.\u003cbr\u003e Even if vaccines are developed quickly thanks to advances in science and technology, it has been confirmed that if everyone cannot be equally safe, ultimately no one can be safe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn a world shaken by a pandemic, can we find a way to overcome it?\u003cbr\u003e Finding a 'social vaccine' amidst the history of pandemics that have struck humanity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book, which argues that health inequalities should be considered a crucial key to global health, comprehensively examines the uneven geographical distribution of disease, the power relations and systems behind it, the life opportunities that regions offer, and the markets, institutions, political norms, and cultural assets that influence those opportunities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapters 1 and 2, which deal with the cases of cholera and typhoid, focus on how epidemics amplify existing social, political, and cultural prejudices, hatred, and discrimination, and conversely, how these existing discriminations negatively impact the spread and damage of epidemics. \u003cbr\u003eChapters 3, 4, and 5, which cover COVID-19, the Spanish flu, and malaria, address how, even in cases of epidemics that originated or spread widely in the West, prejudices like Orientalism distort the blame for non-Western events, demonstrating how epidemics have created a false sense of distinction between the West and the non-West.\u003cbr\u003e Furthermore, the case of successful epidemic eradication by focusing on “poverty eradication” rather than “epidemic eradication” highlights the fact that efforts to alleviate poverty and inequality must be accompanied by efforts to ensure global health.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapters 6 and 7, which deal with tuberculosis and the Ebola virus, show how the rapid globalization that has occurred since the end of the Cold War has led to the emergence of infectious diseases in specific regions and influenced the methods and extent of intervention by other countries. \u003cbr\u003eThis chapter explores how the post-neoliberal shift in production systems and scale, the flexible employment structure, the minimization of the state's role, intervention, and control, the accelerated spread of infectious diseases, and the response of global health governance, represented by the World Health Organization, have transformed the geographical landscape of health inequalities.\u003cbr\u003e Chapters 8 and 9 illustrate how transnational solidarity among civil society organizations plays a powerful role in countries' responses to infectious diseases, through examples of conflicts between the health rights of AIDS patients and the interests of global pharmaceutical companies, and through examples of national responses to COVID-19. They also illustrate the importance of government policy choices, implementation capabilities, and citizens' trust in government.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The region is not only a space where epidemics occur and spread, but also a space where they are reproduced, processed, and imagined. \u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding the complex dynamics of these epidemics in localized settings is, in some ways, as important as identifying their causes and treatments.\u003cbr\u003e Because our political, economic, and intellectual desires, or our vain beliefs and preconceptions, can amplify the epidemic and the crisis it causes.\u003cbr\u003e …people generally agree that health inequalities exist between regions.\u003cbr\u003e However, opinions are divided as to the cause.\u003cbr\u003e “Depending on whether the cause of health inequality is seen as individual behavioral habits, regional environment, or socioeconomic structure, the identification of the cause and the solution will differ.” (p. 6, “Introduction”)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book reveals how cultural biases and political, economic, and social judgments are intimately intertwined with global safety in the face of pandemics, challenging the familiar perspective that separates the causes of infectious disease outbreaks and their spread from human lives.\u003cbr\u003e It begins with understanding that infectious diseases are not only biological but also social diseases, and that the causes of infectious diseases and solutions to overcome them are not as linear or otherized as we might think.\u003cbr\u003e If science and technology are always reactive responses, this book makes clear that examining the geographic networks and maps of poverty and inequality that actually crisscross our lives may be the only proactive response we can offer in the face of pandemics. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 23, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 372 pages | 550g | 152*223*20mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n \u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9791187038894\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 118703889X \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43894101901354,"sku":"105439","price":27.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/5adb52e4d75e0ef699dc16edeaf78f35.jpg?v=1765428861","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/105439","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}