Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"This is an important book, which will become required reading for scholars and students of pandemic lockdowns. It is the first volume to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach from the humanities and social sciences which addresses as a totality the humanistic and social costs of lockdowns. By the end of the book, the reader is in no doubt that, had perspectives from the humanities and social sciences been incorporated into the pandemic response, the response would have been materially different - and this shift in perspective is a huge achievement."

Toby Green, King's College London, UK

"This is an important contribution to issues which are being swept under the carpet - an impressive demolition of the social and moral case for lockdowns and a reminder of their devastating collateral consequences."

Lord Jonathan Sumption, former judge of the Supreme Court of the UK

"Social scientists were not just ignored during the COVID-19 pandemic but typically silent or even supportive of measures that inflicted enormous harm. This important volume starts to correct this tragedy, ranging widely across disciplines and societies to explore questions of scientism, moralism, freedom, harm, and more. Essential reading for anyone longing for critical perspectives on the disasters that unfolded after March 2020."

Lee Jones, Professor of Political Economy and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, UK

"A thought-provoking set of essays which go well beyond standard criticisms of the pandemic response, investigating the deeper harms and questioning our understanding of concepts such as health and immunity, as well as being one of the rare texts to document the effects of pandemic policies on the Global South."

Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK