Global health, humanity and the COVID-19 pandemic : philosophical and sociological challenges and imperatives / Francis Egbokhare, Adeshina Afolayan, editors.
Egbokhare, Francis O., editor.; Afolayan, Adeshina, editor.
2022
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Global health, humanity and the COVID-19 pandemic : philosophical and sociological challenges and imperatives / Francis Egbokhare, Adeshina Afolayan, editors.
ISBN
9783031174292 (electronic bk.)
3031174291 (electronic bk.)
9783031174285
3031174283
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17429-2
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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English
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
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10.1007/978-3-031-17429-2 doi
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RA643
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614.4
303.483
Summary
This volume interrogates global health and especially the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role that science has played in mitigating the human experiences of pandemics and health over the centuries. Science, and the scientific method, has always been at the forefront of the human attempt at undermining the virulent consequences of sicknesses and diseases. However, the scientific image of humans in the world is founded on the presumption of possessing the complete understanding about humans and their physiological and psychological frameworks. This volume challenges this scientific assumption. Global health denotes the complex and cumulative health profile of humanity that involves not only the framework of scientific researches and practices that investigates and seeks to improve the health of all people on the globe, but also the range of humanistic issues - economic, cultural, social, ideological - that constitute the sources of inequities and threat to the achievement of a positive global health profile. This volume balances the argument that diseases and pandemics are human problems that demand both scientific and humanistic interventions. Francis Egbokhare is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ibadan, a public intellectual and a former president of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), Nigeria. His areas of specialization include ethics and citizenship; culture and development, grammar, phonology and sociolinguistics. In addition, he has published works on open and distance education and management of higher education. He is the co-editor (with R. P. Schaefer) of A Dictionary of Emai (2007), A Grammar of Emai (2016), and Class Marking in Emai (2019). Adeshina Afolayan is a Professor of African Philosophy at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His areas of specialization include philosophy of politics, African cultural studies, and African philosophy. He is the author of Philosophy and National Development in Nigeria (2018), a co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy (2017), Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa (2018), and Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa (2021), editor of Identities, Histories and Values in Nigeria (2021), and co-author of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion and Philosophy (2022).
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Chapter One Introduction: Humanity and Disease Discourse
Chapter Two Toward a Fuller Understanding of the Enigma of Health
Chapter Three Ubuntu and COVID-19: A Philosophical Reflection
Chapter Four Limits of Science-based Approaches in Global Health: Socio-Cultural and Moral Lessons from Ebola and Covid-19
Chapter Five The Vaccination Mandate Debate Revisited
Part II: Critical Framing of the Pandemic in Africa
Chapter Six An African Perspective on the Ethics and Politics of Foreign Medical Aid in a Pandemic
Chapter Seven Disease Discourses, African Knowledge Systems, and COVID-19 in Senegal
Chapter Eight nulb: Ethical Imperative of Yorb Thought on Eating for Covid-19 Related Crises
Chapter Nine Epidemiology and an Epistemic Evaluation of the Management of Covid-19 in Nigeria
Chapter Ten Borders, Boundaries and Identities: Navigating the Barriers to Solidarity and Cohesion in a Pandemic
Chapter Eleven Discourses of the Wandering Almajiri Child as Representation of the (Post-) COVID Generation
Chapter Twelve Quarantining the Holy Spirit: Africa and the Pentecostal Economy of COVID-19 Pandemic
Chapter Thirteen On Pandemic Planning and the Front-line Workers in Nigeria
Chapter Fourteen Dialogism and Polyphony in the Interpretations of COVID-19 Discourse in Zimbabwe
Part III: Representing COVID-19
Chapter Fifteen Cartooning COVID on Facebook
Chapter Sixteen Its in Your hands: Communicating a Pandemic to a Disengaged Public
Chapter Seventeen Musical (Re)presentations of COVID-19 on Social Media among Young People in Nigeria
Chapter Eighteen Covid-19, Food and Freedom to Worship: An Analytic Approach to Nigerias Religioscape
Chapter Nineteen Covid-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement on Social Media in Nigeria
Chapter Twenty COVID-19 (Post)proverbials: Twisting the Word Against the Virus.

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