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Free Download Pandemic Resilience: Vaccination Resistance and Hesitance, Lessons from COVID-19 by David M. Berube
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 524 Pages | ISBN : 3031740610 | 22.4 MB
This edited volume draws from health communication scholars and offers a depthful examination of the roles vaccination have played and continue to play in contributing to human, community, and transnational protection against infectious diseases. The problems associated with vaccination against infection diseases was made abundantly clear during the current pandemic of COVID-19. Vaccines were traced back to Dr. Edward Jenner in the 18th century as a tool to control smallpox in England. Today we have six different categories of vaccines (three seem most controversial today): inactivated, live-attenuated, and messenger RNA (mRNA). We examine the reasons for public reluctance and outright resistance to vaccines examining cognitive biases, communication campaign failures, politicization, misinformation, partisanship, and greed. The healthcare industry has not treated all infected people equally, especially the poor and people of color. This is true in the USA as well as abroad. In the future, we can expect more exotic infections to increase due to globalization, development, and transportation. As climate changes, humans will contact more species carrying many different bacteria and viruses. Advances in medical research have led to increases in the number of vaccinations available to control infection and outbreaks. However, the rates of vaccination have fluctuated over time. A vaccine that is not used is meaningless. To increase vaccination rates, we must learn why the public shies away from vaccinations and under what circumstances. This information will enable us to design more effective messaging and communication campaigns to maximize general resilience. An interactive partnership between providers of healthcare and their patients is a prerequisite to productive and effective vaccination campaigns.

Free Download The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office by Ilana Gershon
English | May 15, 2024 | ISBN: 0226832635 | 183 pages | MOBI | 0.84 Mb
A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically.

Free Download Tamir Bar-On, "Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Radical Right: Scapegoating, Conspiracy Theories, and New Narratives"
English | ISBN: 3838214889 | 2021 | 206 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Numerous political commentators have noted the rise of the radical right worldwide. How has the radical right responded to the COVID-19 pandemic? Has the radical right been legitimized in a world of closed borders and greater securitization? Have radical right regimes in power cracked under the strains of the crisis and thus undermined their own political fortunes? Have radical right-wing responses to COVID-19 been uniform or diversified? These are some of the questions tackled in Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Radical Right.

Free Download Fintan Walsh, "Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres "
English | ISBN: 1009464817 | 2024 | 74 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by innovating forms and spaces designed to support us in grief. It considers how theatre grieved for itself, for the dead, for lost ways of living, while also imagining and enacting new modes of being together. Even as it reckoned with its own demise, theatre endeavoured to collectivise grief by performing a range of functions more commonly associated with funerary, health and social care services, which buckled under restrictions and neglect. These pandemic theatres show how grief cannot only be let mourn over individual losses in private, but how it must also seep into the public sphere to fight to save critical services, institutions, communities and art forms, including theatre itself.

Free Download Axel Berkofsky, Giulia Sciorati, "Post-Pandemic Asia: A New Normal for Regional Security?"
English | 2021 | ASIN: B08XXYCSSH | EPUB | pages: 109 | 0.9 mb
In 2020, the way we define "insecurity" has drastically changed. Insecurity can now also be invisible and all around us, in the shape of a virus that disrupts people’s lives, upends the economy, subverts the core functions of national governments and jeopardises the foundations of international cooperation. At the same time, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has not made traditional security challenges disappear, especially in and around Asia.This Report presents short- and long-term scenarios for each of the hotspots that challenge peace and stability in Asia, a region that, after the pandemic, has become even more crucial for a swift global recovery.

Free Download Sebastián Moreno Barreneche, "Semiotics of the COVID-19 Pandemic, The "
English | ISBN: 1350359564 | 2024 | 234 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Focusing on the discursive dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic from a semiotic perspective, this book uses semiotic theory and methods to analyse the meaning-making mechanisms and dynamics that occurred during, and revolved around, the pandemic. Demonstrating the utility of semiotic theory, concepts and analytical methods to make sense of discursive phenomena like those triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the book explores in detail: · the blame-attribution discourses that emerged at the beginning of the pandemic; · how the coronavirus was brought to life in plastic and visual manifestations as a monster that poses a threat to humans; · how the collective actor ‘the healthcare workers’ was constructed in discourse and axiologised in positive terms; · the semiotics of the body during the pandemic, with a focus on the face, facemasks, social distancing and the uses of the body in online environments; · the idea of a ‘new’ normality following the pandemic. The book examines different dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic, including examples from Europe, Latin America and the United States and a wide range of images, texts, practices and objects, in order to highlight the importance of its discursive and semiotic nature.

Free Download David Gordon, "The American Cardiovascular Pandemic: A 100-Year History "
English | ISBN: 1476685126 | 2021 | 257 pages | PDF | 13 MB
As Americans and citizens of other industrializing countries began to enjoy lives of increasing affluence and ease during the first half of the 20th century, a rising tide of heart attacks and strokes displaced infectious diseases as the leading cause of death, killing millions in the United States and throughout the world. Although cardiovascular disease remains serious and widespread, the significant decline of per capita deaths is one of the greatest accomplishments of modern public health and medicine. Death rates from heart attack and stroke have fallen dramatically by 80% in the past 50 years – the progress has been hard won by a combination of basic and applied laboratory research, broad and far-reaching epidemiological studies by physicians, scientists, and public health experts. Cardiovascular disease is no longer viewed as an as an inevitable feature of the natural course of aging, and complacency has given way to hope. This book focuses on developments that influenced the rise and decline of cardiovascular mortality since 1900, but also includes insider insights from the author, a 42-year NIH employee.

Free Download Truth 20/20: How a Global Pandemic Shaped Truth Research by Adam C. Podlaskowski, Drew Johnson
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 263 Pages | ISBN : 3031662482 | 6.8 MB
This book offers a collection of papers on focal themes in truth research, including minimalism, pragmatism and pluralism, and philosophical logic. It further provides valuable hindsight with contemporary perspectives on the works of Frege, Wittgenstein, Ramsey, Strawson, and Evans on truth, and it features recent discussions on the role and value of truth in politics and political discourse. The collection is based on groundbreaking presentations hosted by the Virtual International Consortium for Truth Research (VICTR), including talks given at the TRUTH 20/20 conference.

Free Download The COVID-19 Pandemic: Science, Technology, and the Future of Healthcare Delivery by Joseph M. Rosen, Rita R. Colwell
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 395 Pages | ISBN : 3031627717 | 44 MB

Free Download Lindsay Shaw Taylor, "The Overfat Pandemic: Exposing the Problem and Its Simple Solution for Everyone Who Needs to Eliminate Excess Body Fat"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1510729542 | EPUB | pages: 200 | 0.3 mb
Research demonstrates that up to 76 percent of the world’s population-or 5.5 billion people-are overfat, defined as having sufficient excess body fat to impair health. This includes nearly 90 percent of Americans-one of the highest percentages worldwide. In The Overfat Pandemic, Dr. Philip Maffetone reveals common misconceptions regarding the real meaning of "overfat," factors that helped cause this global pandemic, and ways individuals can remedy the situation with the proper food and exercise. Other major points in the book include: * The distinction between "overweight" and "overfat" * How normal-weight people can be overfat * Why those who exercise can still be overfat, including athletes * Why waist measurement is better than the bathroom scale * How individuals can take charge of their body fat * How the overfat pandemic can be remedied through simple lifestyle changes and without diets As little as 14 percent of the world’s population has a normal body-fat percentage, and that number may be shrinking. This book aims to curtail the overfat epidemic by exposing a decades-long problem and offering a research-based, practical solution to help prevent and treat it.