Clare Bambra, "The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities"
English | ISBN: 1447361237 | 2021 | 198 pages | PDF | 15 MB
English | ISBN: 1447361237 | 2021 | 198 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemic
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It has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not discriminate’.
This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an ‘equal opportunity’ disease, by showing how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality.
Drawing on international data and accounts, it argues that the pandemic is unequal in three ways: it has killed unequally, been experienced unequally and will impoverish unequally.
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