Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times : Social Control Policies

"Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The repertoires of institutional and administrative governance tools used during the pandemic are studied in their unique institutional, socio-geographic and cultural settings, in order to form an understanding of the political climates and the values inscribed in current societal contracts. The book is intended for academic audiences interested in policy research, health governance, and civil societal issues. It will be of great relevance and use for a wide audience of policy-makers, public officials and health care planners as well as students in a broad range of disciplines"-- Provided by publisher Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of figures 10 List of tables 12 List of contributors 14 Preface 16 Governance and social control during pandemics 18 PART I: Communicating a pandemic 34 1 The role of the Italian press in times of pandemics: old features in the face of a new risk 36 2 Re-vitalising discourses of solidarity: governing populations in times of uncertainty and crisis 54 3 Calm chess player or self-aware administrator? How the Finnish and Swedish public health agencies addressed the public during the corona outbreak 72 PART II: Autonomy, rights, and choice 98 4 A battle over birth: contestations, lived experiences and the restrictive policy of Finnish birth care in the Covid-19 pandemic 100 5 Stuck between health-related and socioeconomic risks. Managing the pandemic in India 118 PART III: Political and ideological struggles 134 6 The effects of a hegemonising negationist narrative in Brazil 136 7 When counting counts: politics of quantification and the government of Covid-19 in São Paulo 162 PART IV: Framing control policy options 184 8 The framing of harms to children and youth due to the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden, Finland and Ontario, Canada in relation to school lockdowns 186 9 Nudge: behavioural science, normative discourse, and the art of consent 221 PART V: Summary and conclusions 248 10 Governance in pandemic times: conclusions 250 Index 268 social,control,policies;,health,governance;,lockdown;,COVID-19;,social,policy;,restrictive,policies;,pandemic;,public,health social control policies,health governance,lockdown,COVID-19,social policy,restrictive policies,pandemic,public health Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. __Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times__ looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.