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The pandemic in Britain

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"This book offers a political analysis and sociological critique of the UK government's response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, interpreting the inadequacies of government policy with regard to COVID-19 as the results of neoliberal ideology, the protection of corporate interests, Brexit nationalism, and the peculiarities of a British model of capitalism based on international trade and labour market precarity. Arguing that institutionalised corporate-capitalist control of state and science generates new and growing public health risks, and that consumer-driven individualism has eroded community life and the protections this might offer against pandemics, it contends that the UK government's catastrophic response to the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of peculiarly British socioeconomic and political phenomena. The Pandemic in Britain will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy and politics with interests in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as neoliberal ideology and its manifestation in political life"-- Provided by publisher.

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Introduction : anatomy of the UK pandemic -- The road to lockdown -- Healthcare shortages and the ventilator challenge -- Neoliberalism and the crisis of welfare -- Premature unlockings and the later lockdowns -- Border insecurities -- Communicative ambivalence and test and trace -- Mask skepticism -- Freedom day -- Conclusions : beyond freedom?

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Creaven, Sean, 1963-. The pandemic in Britain

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:16:59.998422+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23034860

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
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  • Description language: eng
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