| Description |
333 pages ; 23 cm |
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Contains bibliographical references (pages 266-321) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Fear and germs. Old friends -- How to lose old friends and gain first-world health problems -- Viruses and the hosts they love -- Epidemics of fear and ignorance -- Mysophobia and mass hysteria in the global age -- Part II: A pandemic in the time of safety. Pandemic planning meets the safety culture -- All the doom we need -- The face badge of virtue -- Hurting children for the appearance of safety -- A human need for community -- The problem with science -- Herd immunity and the herd mentality -- The controls of a microbial planet. |
| Summary |
"Fear of a Microbial Planet, offers clarity and science on the organization and management of individual social life in the presence of pathogenic infection. It can be read as a definitive answer to expert arrogance, political overreach, and population panic. For three years following the arrival of the virus that causes Covid, the dominant response from governments and the public has been to be afraid and stay far away through any means possible. This has further mutated into a population-wide germophobia that is actually being promoted by elite opinion. Steve Templeton, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute and Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine--Terre Haute, argues that this response is primitive, unscientific, and ultimately contrary to individual and public health"--Provided by publisher. |
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Political aspects.
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects.
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Epidemics -- Social aspects.
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Communicable diseases.
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Social distance.
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| Added Title |
How a germophobic safety culture makes us less safe |
| ISBN |
9781630695835 (paperback) |
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1630695831 (paperback) |
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