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Global Health, Humanity and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Philosophical and Sociological Challenges and Imperatives

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Editors:
  1. Francis Egbokhare

    1. Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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  2. Adeshina Afolayan

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

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  • Interrogates global health and the COVID-19 pandemic through a sociological lens
  • Broadens the idea of global health to include a range of humanistic issues
  • Edited in part by the former president of the Nigerian Academy of Letters

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction: Humanity and Disease Discourse

    • Francis Egbokhare, Adeshina Afolayan
    Pages 1-12

  4. Critical Framing of the Pandemic in Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. An African Perspective on the Ethics and Politics of Foreign Medical Aid in a Pandemic

      • Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan, Ademola Kazeem Fayemi
      Pages 97-121

    3. Disease Discourses, African Knowledge Systems, and COVID-19 in Senegal

      • Karen S. Barton, Jieun Lee, Ivan J. Ramírez
      Pages 123-150

    4. Ẹnulẹbọ: Ethical Imperative of Yorùbá Thought on Eating for COVID-19-Related Crises

      • Adewale O. Owoseni
      Pages 151-170

    5. Epidemiology and an Epistemic Evaluation of the Management of COVID-19 in Nigeria

      • Anselm K. Jimoh, Francis Ikhianosime
      Pages 171-196

    6. Borders, Boundaries, and Identities: Navigating the Barriers to Solidarity and Cohesion in a Pandemic

      • Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan, Wasiu Abiodun Balogun
      Pages 197-222

    7. Discourses of the Wandering Almajiri Child as Representation of the (Post-)COVID Generation

      • Malami Buba, Mikailu Ibrahim
      Pages 223-245

    8. Quarantining the Holy Spirit: Africa and the Pentecostal Economy of COVID-19 Pandemic

      • Asonzeh Ukah
      Pages 247-282

    9. On Pandemic Planning and the Frontline Workers in Nigeria

      • Damilola Victoria Oduola
      Pages 283-302

    10. Dialogism and Polyphony in the Interpretations of COVID-19 Discourse in Zimbabwe

      • Tobias Marevesa, Esther Mavengano
      Pages 303-326

  5. Representing COVID-19

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 327-327
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    2. Cartooning COVID-19 on Facebook

      • James Yékú
      Pages 329-351

    3. “It’s in Your Hands”: Communicating a Pandemic to a Disengaged Public

      • Eyitayo Aloh
      Pages 353-371
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Keywords

About this book

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 apositive global health profile. This volume balances the argument that diseases and pandemics are human problems that demand both scientific and humanistic interventions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Francis Egbokhare

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

    Adeshina Afolayan

About the editors

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).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Health, Humanity and the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Book Subtitle: Philosophical and Sociological Challenges and Imperatives

  • Editors: Francis Egbokhare, Adeshina Afolayan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17429-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17428-5Published: 25 February 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17431-5Published: 26 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17429-2Published: 24 February 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 491

  • Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Sciences, general, Sociology of the Body, Public Health, Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies

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