Pandemic Societies

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Alan Petersen

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• Interrogates established forms of knowledge and practice for predicting and responding to pandemics, such as epidemiology and modelling. • Considers how pandemics are changing social practices in areas such as governance, work and recreation, science and technology, education, and family life. • Offers to pointers to the future of the pandemic society, including the expansion of technologies of surveillance and control, as well as the prospects of social renewal created by economic and social disruption.

Author Biography:

Alan Petersen is Professor of Sociology at Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK and in Australia. He has written on the sociology of health and medicine, the sociology of risk, the sociology of news media and digital media, science and technology studies and gender studies for more than 30 years.

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October 1st, 2024

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