Global Health, Humanity and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Philosophical and Sociological Challenges and Imperatives

Adeshina Afolayan editor Francis Egbokhare editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:25th Feb '23

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Global Health, Humanity and the COVID-19 Pandemic cover

This volume interrogates global health and especially the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role that science has played in mitigating the human experiences of pandemics and health over the centuries. Science, and the scientific method, has always been at the forefront of the human attempt at undermining the virulent consequences of sicknesses and diseases. However, the scientific image of humans in the world is founded on the presumption of possessing the complete understanding about humans and their physiological and psychological frameworks. This volume challenges this scientific assumption. Global health denotes the complex and cumulative health profile of humanity that involves not only the framework of scientific researches and practices that investigates and seeks to improve the health of all people on the globe, but also the range of humanistic issues - economic, cultural, social, ideological - that constitute the sources of inequities and threat to the achievement of a positive global health profile. This volume balances the argument that diseases and pandemics are human problems that demand both scientific and humanistic interventions.

ISBN: 9783031174285

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 796g

491 pages