Unmasked : the politics of pandemics /
Bowtell, Bill,
Unmasked : the politics of pandemics / Bill Bowtell. - Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2021. - viii, 87 pages ; 18 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering to millions more. In 2020, COVID-19 emerged into a world where many governments had failed to heed the lessons of the past, and so they were unprepared and unable to stop its global spread. But some countries had learned the harsh lessons of HIV/AIDS, and had contained SARS1, Ebola, Zika and MERS. When coronavirus hit, they knew what to do to save their people from avoidable infections and deaths. In Unmasked: the Politics of Pandemics, Bill Bowtell draws on his four decades of experience in the global and local politics of public health to examine why some countries got it right with coronavirus while others collapsed into misery and chaos. He looks closely at the critical weeks when poor planning brought Australia to the brink of disaster, until the Australian people forced their governments to put public health before politics. Unmasked reveals how and why our politicians failed us during the greatest public health crisis of this century to date.
9781922464248
40030782955
17112545 ybp
2020415280
020147409 Uk
2000-2099
COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy--Australia.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Political aspects--Australia.
COVID-19 (Disease)
Epidemics.
Medical policy.
Politics and government.
Public health.
COVID-19 (Disease)--Australia.
Epidemics--Australia.
Public health--Australia.
Medical policy--Australia.
Australia.
Australia--Politics and government--21st century.
Australian
RA644.C67 / B69 2021
320.994
Unmasked : the politics of pandemics / Bill Bowtell. - Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2021. - viii, 87 pages ; 18 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering to millions more. In 2020, COVID-19 emerged into a world where many governments had failed to heed the lessons of the past, and so they were unprepared and unable to stop its global spread. But some countries had learned the harsh lessons of HIV/AIDS, and had contained SARS1, Ebola, Zika and MERS. When coronavirus hit, they knew what to do to save their people from avoidable infections and deaths. In Unmasked: the Politics of Pandemics, Bill Bowtell draws on his four decades of experience in the global and local politics of public health to examine why some countries got it right with coronavirus while others collapsed into misery and chaos. He looks closely at the critical weeks when poor planning brought Australia to the brink of disaster, until the Australian people forced their governments to put public health before politics. Unmasked reveals how and why our politicians failed us during the greatest public health crisis of this century to date.
9781922464248
40030782955
17112545 ybp
2020415280
020147409 Uk
2000-2099
COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy--Australia.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020---Political aspects--Australia.
COVID-19 (Disease)
Epidemics.
Medical policy.
Politics and government.
Public health.
COVID-19 (Disease)--Australia.
Epidemics--Australia.
Public health--Australia.
Medical policy--Australia.
Australia.
Australia--Politics and government--21st century.
Australian
RA644.C67 / B69 2021
320.994
