Sweden's Pandemic Experiment

ISBN-13: 9781032266701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 336 str.

Opis

This book considers Sweden’s pandemic management which differed so significantly from much of the rest of the world it provoked intense and wide-reaching interest, curiosity and criticism.

Spis treści

Introduction Sweden Stumbles along the Third Way  1. In the rupture between this and another world to come: introductory remarks on pandemic emergency and Sweden’s response  2.A timeline of events: December 2019 to February 2022  3. On the virology of SARS-CoV-2 and an expert authority without real experts: was there a deliberate disinformation from the Public Health Agency of Sweden on theSARS-CoV-2 infection’s spread in the population? 4.The COVID-19-pandemic and the Swedish strategy: central aspects of the strategy in relation to evidence-based medicine criteria  5.The Swedish COVID-19 response: from poorly judged utilitarianism to history revisionism and the tragedy of the commons  6.Learning from failure: mastering a pandemic in the triad of science, politics and trust  7.Epidemiology and COVID-19: why numbers are important and can be misleading  8.The political economy of estimating immunity levels  9.Children at the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic  10.The biopolitics of herd immunity  11.Collaborators, supporters, and science judges: how trust in the Public Health Agency’s messaging was achieved  12.Sweden unmasked: reading state and society through the pandemic  13. A drastic end to a long story of success in Swedish preventive medicine