Overview
- 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)
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Humanistic Understanding of Disease
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Critical Framing of the Pandemic in Africa
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Representing COVID-19
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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