COVID-19 and the language of pathology: when public health vocabularies advance into parallel domains

White, Jonathan ORCID: 0000-0002-4668-698X (2020) COVID-19 and the language of pathology: when public health vocabularies advance into parallel domains. British Politics and Policy at LSE (19 Mar 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Jonathan White explains why analogies associated with public health tend to be used in areas unrelated to the latter, such as the economy and migration. He writes that such perspectives can often be a way to rationalise limited intervention on the part of authorities, as well as to detach issues from their social and political context, limiting this way individual responsibility.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author
Divisions:	European Institute
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2020 23:24
Last Modified:	01 Apr 2024 07:54
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/105703

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