Main description:

Pandemics have quickly become one of the most important subjects of the twenty-first century. This edited volume provides a comparative analysis of the ways in which pandemics are theorized and studied across several disciplines. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pandemics has two objectives: first, to explore the growing diversity of theories and paradigms developed to study pandemics; and second, to initiate a multidisciplinary dialogue about the
ontological, epistemological, paradigmatic, and normative aspects of studying pandemics across disciplines. The study of pandemics is not new. Yet despite the volume of research interest in a host of academic fields, scholars rarely talk across the disciplines. This study seeks to fill that gap by attempting to bridge
disciplinary canyons. Eager to encourage this arena of conversation, this book brings together in a single volume essays by political scientists, environmental scholars, legal scholars, clinical pharmacists, economists, scholars of urban planning, scholars in health and medicine schools, and researchers in business and management.

Contents:

Brooke A. Ackerly, Jean-Michel Marcoux, Philippe Bourbeau: Introduction: Pandemics, Multidisciplinarity and Global Ethics
1: Kathryn H. Jacobsen: An Epidemiological Perspective on Historic and Emerging Pandemics
2: Dominic D. P. Johnson: What Viruses Want: Evolutionary Insights for the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lessons for the Next One
3: Jack A. Goldstone: Will COVID-19 Bring Down Governments? Will it Bring Rebellions and Revolutions?
4: Matthieu J. Guitton: Bioterrorism and Pandemics
5: Christopher Bickerton: Europe and the Pandemic
6: Jean-Frederic Morin, Sikina Jinnah, Amandine Orsini: Pandemics and Environmental Crises: Similar Problems; Different Governance Systems
7: Michael Hooper: Pandemics and the City: COVID-19 and the Future of Urban Density and Densification
8: Charles-Emmanuel Cote, Richard Ouellet, Jean-Michel Marcoux: Pandemics and the Use of Exceptions in International Economics Law: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
9: Julia Smith: COVID-19: Exposing the Gender Gaps in Global Health
10: Robert Muggah: The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Shifting Opportunity Structure of Organized Crime
11: Christophe Roux Dufort, Mary-Lieta Clement: The Pandemic Crisis: A Tragic Perspective
12: Sara E. Davies: International and Global Cooperation in Response to COVID-19: The Past, the Present, and the Future
13: Luc Bergeron, Martin Darveau: How COVID-19 is Shaking Up Pharmacy
14: Markus Herrmann, Maripier Isabelle: COVID-19 and the Economics of Population Health: Analyzing Direct and Indirect Effects
15: Genevieve Parent: COVID-19: A Wake-Up Call for Sustainable Food Systems
16: Andrea K. Bjorklund: Force Majeure in International Law During a Pandemic: Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis