Covid 19 In India Disease Health And Culture

Author : Anindita Chatterjee,Nilanjana Chatterjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000770612

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Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture by Anindita Chatterjee,Nilanjana Chatterjee Pdf

This book is a cultural exploration of health and wellness, with a focus on impacts of Covid-19 on the population of India. The chapters in this book present original research, systematic reviews, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, encompassing multidisciplinary, inter- and intra-disciplinary fields of study, in the context of how culture and disease sufficiently unpack and inform each other. The book includes contributions from the social sciences and the humanities and analyses issues that range from smallpox to the history of vaccine, indigenous healing practices, the Macbeth paradigm, Zizekian encounters, mental asylum, and marginalised genders. Using the theme of intellectual interconnectedness in the times of self-isolation and social distancing, the book is a collaboration of critical thinkers who identify and visibilize the hidden global issues related to ‘disease’ and ‘health’ that have divided the world into narrow binaries – individual/society, poor/rich, proletariat/bourgeoisie, margin/centre, colonised/coloniser, servitude/liberty, powerless/powerful. By doing so, the book emphasises the potential of holistic wellness to improve human life and humanity across the globe. A novel contribution on the cultural factors that played an important role in contemporary times of Covid-19, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Cultural Studies, Health and Society and South Asian Studies.

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780197674550

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Pandemic India by David Arnold Pdf

Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to "the pandemic" as a devastating, recurrent global phenomenon. Today the term is freely and widely used-but in reality, it has a long and contested history, centred on South Asia. Pandemic India is an innovative enquiry into the emergence of the idea and changing meaning of pandemics, exploring the pivotal role played by-or assigned to-India over the past 200 years. Using the perspectives of the social historian and the historian of medicine, and a wide range of sources, it explains how and why past pandemics were so closely identified with South Asia; the factors behind outbreaks' exceptional destructiveness in India; responses from society and the state, both during and since the colonial era; and how such collective catastrophes have changed lives and been remembered. Giving a 'long history' to India's current pandemic, the book offers comparisons with earlier epidemics of cholera, plague and influenza. David Arnold assesses the distinctive characteristics and legacies of each episode, tracking the evolution of public health strategies and containment measures. This is a historian's reflection on time as seen through the pandemic prism, and on the ways the past is used--or misused--to serve the present.

Author : Saroj Pachauri,Ash Pachauri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : COVID-19 (Disease)
ISBN : 9789811673856

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Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond by Saroj Pachauri,Ash Pachauri Pdf

This open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the pandemic on mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health financing, self-care, and vaccine development and distribution. The contributing authors discuss its impact on vulnerable populations, including interstate migrants and female sex workers. The significant role of media and communications, rapid dissemination of information in social media, and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic era are discussed. It closes with lessons learned from the experiences of countries that have contained the pandemic. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book presents solutions of problems that relate to COVID-19. It is a valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include governments, academicians, researchers, policy-makers, program implementers, as well as lay persons.

Author : Gopi Devdutt Tripathy,Anurita Jalan,Mala Kapur Shankardass
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811623202

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Sociological Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic in India by Gopi Devdutt Tripathy,Anurita Jalan,Mala Kapur Shankardass Pdf

This book presents a sociological study of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of India. It invites readers to understand disasters and crises as triggers of radical transformations in society, changing the very nature of every day and the meaning of normal. It discusses the processes through which society accepts, internalizes and reinvents a new way of life. It provides insights into its impact on the individual, family, economy and the state and the relationships not only between them but also within them. The chapters draw attention to the concerns of the vulnerable sections of the population – the aged, children, women, the disabled, migrant labour and the economically backward classes. The chapters are written in an engaging style, and each chapter investigates the way societies think about the risk, threat and harm and the ways to navigate crises of all kinds. As such, the book provides a key read for academics, students and administrators, as well as general readers confronted by an existential crisis caused by the pandemic.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032028408

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Negotiating the Pandemic by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The chapters include auto-ethnographic accounts and ethnographic explorations that reflect upon experiences of living with the pandemic and the implications for all areas of life. The book explicates people's dealings with COVID-19 at various levels, situates the spread of rumors, conspiracy theories, and new social rituals within micro- and/or macro-contexts, and describes the interplay between the virus and various institutionalized forms of inequalities and structural vulnerabilities. Bringing together a variety of perspectives, the volume relates to the past, describes the Covidian present, and offers futuristic implications. It enlists distinct imaginaries based on current understandings of an extraordinary challenge that holds significant importance for our human future.

Author : Balram Bhargava
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9355200226

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GOING VIRAL by Balram Bhargava Pdf

Going Viral records the encouraging story of tackling the pandemic in India and the efforts of all who have worked tirelessly to keep us safe. The COVID-19 pandemic caused enormous suffering across the globe. All countries irrespective of their economic, social and health infrastructure or cultural status plunged into unimaginable devastation. India also went through its share of despair and agony. As a nation, we fought this pandemic bravely with the all-round support of the government, scientific agencies and the public and came up with customized solutions to save the nation. The biggest among them was the development of an indigenous vaccine in record time. Going Viral is an honest attempt to take readers through the journey of India's homegrown vaccine as seen through the eyes of Dr Balram Bhargava, a medical scientist and the director general of India's apex medical research organization, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Starting with the report of a mysterious pneumonia-like illness from Wuhan to the detection of the first case, Bhargava shares his own experience while fighting the health crisis of the century. From the development of a robust laboratory network, diagnosis, treatment and serosurveys to new technologies and vaccines, the book touches upon the intricacies of science and challenges faced by our scientists during the fight against COVID-19.

Author : Zisis Kozlakidis,Denise L. Doolan,Shen-Ying Zhang,Yasuko Tsunetsugu Yokota,Tatsuo Shioda,Rukhsana Ahmed,Mohan Jyoti Dutta,Ata Murat Kaynar,Michael Kogut,Hannah Bradby,Slobodan Paessler,Alex Rodriguez-Palacios,Alexis M. Kalergis,Longxiang Su,Abdallah Samy,Zhongheng Zhang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832522301

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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Pathophysiology, Epidemiology, Clinical Management and Public Health Response (volume I.B) by Zisis Kozlakidis,Denise L. Doolan,Shen-Ying Zhang,Yasuko Tsunetsugu Yokota,Tatsuo Shioda,Rukhsana Ahmed,Mohan Jyoti Dutta,Ata Murat Kaynar,Michael Kogut,Hannah Bradby,Slobodan Paessler,Alex Rodriguez-Palacios,Alexis M. Kalergis,Longxiang Su,Abdallah Samy,Zhongheng Zhang Pdf

Volume I.B An outbreak of a respiratory disease first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and the causative agent was discovered in January 2020 to be a novel betacoronovirus of the same subgenus as SARS-CoV and named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly disseminated worldwide, with clinical manifestations ranging from mild respiratory symptoms to severe pneumonia and a fatality rate estimated around 2%. Person to person transmission is occurring both in the community and healthcare settings. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently declared the COVID-19 epidemic a public health emergency of international concern. The ongoing outbreak presents many clinical and public health management challenges due to limited understanding of viral pathogenesis, risk factors for infection, natural history of disease including clinical presentation and outcomes, prognostic factors for severe illness, period of infectivity, modes and extent of virus inter-human transmission, as well as effective preventive measures and public health response and containment interventions. There are no antiviral treatment nor vaccine available but fast track research and development efforts including clinical therapeutic trials are ongoing across the world. Managing this serious epidemic requires the appropriate deployment of limited human resources across all cadres of health care and public health staff, including clinical, laboratory, managerial and epidemiological data analysis and risk assessment experts. It presents challenges around public communication and messaging around risk, with the potential for misinformation and disinformation. Therefore, integrated operational research and intervention, learning from experiences across different fields and settings should contribute towards better understanding and managing COVID-19. This Research Topic aims to highlight interdisciplinary research approaches deployed during the COVID-19 epidemic, addressing knowledge gaps and generating evidence for its improved management and control. It will incorporate critical, theoretically informed and empirically grounded original research contributions using diverse approaches, experimental, observational and intervention studies, conceptual framing, expert opinions and reviews from across the world. The Research Topic proposes a multi-dimensional approach to improving the management of COVID-19 with scientific contributions from all areas of virology, immunology, clinical microbiology, epidemiology, therapeutics, communications as well as infection prevention and public health risk assessment and management studies.

Author : RC Sobti,Aastha Sobti
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000843279

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Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic by RC Sobti,Aastha Sobti Pdf

COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan City in December 2019 and spread throughout Hubei Province and other parts of China. After causing significant morbidity and mortality in China, by February 2020, it had spread to numerous other countries, infecting millions of people and causing a large number of deaths across the world. The COVID-19 pandemic put a burden on almost all areas of the world including healthcare systems, education, industry, travel, etc. The pandemic revealed the vulnerability of the world’s healthcare systems and affected healthcare personnel significantly. The virus is able to attack not only the respiratory tract, but almost all the organs including the brain. Impacts on gut biota have also been noticed. The virus has caused both morbidity and mortality in humans without any geographical, cultural, or religious barriers. The emergence of new variants due to mutations in the virus has aggravated the problem. While the delta variant brought a second wave and killed a large number of people due to various factors such as lowering of saturated oxygen in blood and other physiological emergencies, the omicron variant proved to be less lethal. Though the pandemic has subsided, the emergence of the subvariants BA1 and BA2 and now their hybrids has started to increase the number of cases at exponential levels and has forced new lockdown measures in places such as China. As the conditions laid down to combat the pandemic have been relaxed, the virus may reach other countries and cause additional countries to resort to lockdown again. COVID-19 became the focus of the scientific community with the aim of developing new drugs, repurposing available drugs to be used against the virus, and developing a series of vaccines in a short time. The mild effect of omicron might have been due to the extensive vaccination programmes carried out in various countries. However, there is genuine fear that newly emerging variants may evade the immune system and cause damage to the body. This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on science, industry, and healthcare systems. The chapters included in the volume come from dedicated experts belonging to basic sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical sciences, and other fields of sciences. These include discussions on how the virus evolves and attacks various organs in the body. A separate chapter explains the emergence of various strains of virus. The preparedness of hospitals and healthcare workers as well as different agencies such as DRDO to face the challenges posed by virus is also discussed. The way scientists and technologists developed new techniques to detect and control the virus have also been highlighted including a chapter on the development of vaccines to control the pandemic. This book is a key resource for students, teachers, medical personnel, administrators, and the public as a whole.

Author : Sathyaraj Venkatesan,Antara Chatterjee,A. David Lewis,Brian Callender
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811912962

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Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation by Sathyaraj Venkatesan,Antara Chatterjee,A. David Lewis,Brian Callender Pdf

This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history. Covering a broad range of notable epidemics/pandemics (black death, cholera, Influenza, AIDS, Ebola, COVID-19), the chapters examine the cultural representations of epidemics and pandemics in different contexts, periods, languages, media, and genres. Interdisciplinary in nature and drawing on perspectives from medicine, literature, medical anthropology, philosophy of medicine, and cultural theory, the book investigates and emphasizes the urgent need to reflect on past catastrophes caused by such outbreaks. By delving into cultural history, it re-examines how societies and communities have responded in the past to species-threatening epidemics/pandemics. Sure to be of interest to lay readers as well as students and researchers, this work situates epidemics and pandemics outbreaks within the contexts of culture and narrative, and their complex and layered representation, commenting on intersections of contagion, culture, and community. It offers a cross-cultural, global, and comparative analysis of the trajectories, histories and responses to various epidemics/pandemics that impacted people worldwide.

Author : Rajkumar Rajendram,Victor R Preedy,Vinood Patel,Colin R Martin
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323956512

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Linking Neuroscience and Behavior in COVID-19 by Rajkumar Rajendram,Victor R Preedy,Vinood Patel,Colin R Martin Pdf

Linking Neuroscience and Behavior in COVID-19 examines the impact of the virus and pandemic on behavior and mental health. Chapters look at those with pre-existing conditions, including dementia and multiple sclerosis, and how the pandemic has burdened them further. There is also discussion on the mental health consequences the pandemic has had and continues to have on the broad populace, including depression and anxiety, as well as neurological effects of the virus itself. Finally, managing care and treatment of conditions - those preceding, caused by, or emerging for the first time during the pandemic are also detailed. Discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the virus itself on behavior and psychology Examines comorbidities including Parkinson’s disease, neuroinflammation, and autism spectrum disorders Outlines the management and care for coexisting conditions including brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, and ischemic stroke Features chapters on the severe damage to the nervous system which may be caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection including myelitis Contains chapters with key facts, dictionary of terms, summary points, applications to other areas pertinent to each chapter, and policies and procedures

Author : Mohammadreza Shalbafan,Renato de Filippis,Samer El Hayek
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832508152

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Mental Illness, Culture, and Society: Dealing With the COVID-19 Pandemic by Mohammadreza Shalbafan,Renato de Filippis,Samer El Hayek Pdf

Author : Sanghmitra S. Acharya,Stephen Christopher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811669170

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Caste, COVID-19, and Inequalities of Care by Sanghmitra S. Acharya,Stephen Christopher Pdf

This book explores how social discrimination in South Asia contributes to health disparities and impedes well-being. Specifically, it addresses how marginalization shapes health outcomes, both under normal circumstances and specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Coming from diverse backgrounds and representing different academic disciplines, the authors have contributed a range of chapters drawing from quantitative and ethnographic material across South Asia. Chapters address reservation politics, tribal lifeways, Dalit exclusions from governmental institutions, Muslim ghettoization, gendered domestic violence, social determinants of health among migrant workers, and the pandemic fallout across South Asian society, among other subjects. Scholars draw on decades of experience and firsthand ethnographic fieldwork among affected communities. The chapters provide an innovative analysis, often in real time, of the human toll of casteism, classism, patriarchy, and religious intolerance—many set against the spectre of COVID-19. Many authors not only present social critiques but also offer specific policy recommendations. The book is of great interest to social scientists, public health practitioners, and policy advocates interested in addressing systemic inequalities and ensuring that future pandemics are not disproportionately felt by the most vulnerable.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9390588987

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The Pandemic COVID-19 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rajni Kant
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354092206

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COVID-19 Pandemic by Rajni Kant Pdf

When the whole world is grappling with the COVID-19 situation and the information about this unprecedented pandemic is evolving rapidly, this book is a timely effort to bring authentic information penned by the subject expert themselves. It provides a comprehensive account of the pandemic and covers all the aspects, from science to society in simple crisp language.

Author : Chandrakant Lahariya,Gagandeep Kang,Randeep Guleria
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9788194525936

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Till We Win by Chandrakant Lahariya,Gagandeep Kang,Randeep Guleria Pdf

When will India win the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic? How long do we have to use masks? When can we expect a safe and effective vaccine? Do we need to wear masks even after we get a vaccine? What if there is no definitive treatment against COVID-19? How can we protect our family form this disease? How should we respond to this 'new normal' as an individual and as a community? What is the way forward? Offering insights on how India continues to fight the pandemic, Till We Win is a must-read for everyone. It is a book for the people, for political leaders, policymakers and physicians, with the promise and potential to transform public health in India.