Plus ça change? The COVID-19 pandemic as continuity and change as reflected through risk theory

IF 1.8 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Health Risk & Society Pub Date : 2021-11-17 DOI:10.1080/13698575.2021.2016656

A. Alaszewski

引用次数: 7

Abstract

On 30 December 2019, Dr Marjorie Pollack, deputy editor of ProMed, received information about a SARS-like disease in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Having checked the facts, she issued an alert to the worldwide network signalling the start of an outbreak of a highly infectious and dangerous disease. The new virus, SARS-CoV-2 spread rapidly from Wuhan causing a global pandemic of COVID-19. In this review, I examine the ways in which risk can provide insights into and an understanding of the social and cultural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. I draw on three major theories that highlight the role of risk in contemporary societies: Beck and Giddens’s analysis of late modern society as risk society; Douglas’s analysis of the continuing significance of cultural theory in understanding the construction and use of risk to address social tensions and challenges; and Foucault’s analysis of governmentality and the use of discourses such as risk as a form of power and control.

查看原文本刊更多论文

加上a的变化?COVID-19大流行是风险理论所反映的连续性和变化性

2019年12月30日，《世界医学杂志》副主编马乔里·波拉克博士收到了有关中国武汉市出现类似sars疾病的信息。在核实了事实后，她向全球网络发出警报，表明一种高度传染性和危险的疾病开始爆发。新病毒SARS-CoV-2从武汉迅速传播，导致COVID-19全球大流行。在这篇综述中，我研究了风险如何帮助我们洞察和理解对COVID-19大流行的社会和文化反应。我借鉴了强调风险在当代社会中的作用的三大理论:贝克和吉登斯将晚期现代社会分析为风险社会;道格拉斯分析了文化理论在理解风险的构建和使用以应对社会紧张局势和挑战方面的持续意义;以及福柯对治理的分析，以及将风险等话语作为一种权力和控制形式的运用。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Health Risk & Society Multiple-

CiteScore

3.30

自引率

14.30%

发文量

期刊介绍： Health Risk & Society is an international scholarly journal devoted to a theoretical and empirical understanding of the social processes which influence the ways in which health risks are taken, communicated, assessed and managed. Public awareness of risk is associated with the development of high profile media debates about specific risks. Although risk issues arise in a variety of areas, such as technological usage and the environment, they are particularly evident in health. Not only is health a major issue of personal and collective concern, but failure to effectively assess and manage risk is likely to result in health problems.