Epidemic Response
The Legacy of Colonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9199222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Dohrn (0000-0002-2796-3005), Eleanor Stein |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 54-58 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-073-02-2021-06_4 |
| OpenAlex | W3167124286 |
| Language | EN |
The COVID-19 pandemic is at its root a crisis of globalization, racial capitalism, colonialism, the social organization of our public health system. It is a crisis of treatment and care versus demonization and wall building. And it is the latest pandemic in a long line of modern ones—from SARS to swine flu to HIV to Ebola—a predictable and predicted outcome, not the mysterious unforeseeable lightning strike as it is often portrayed
Capitalism · Colonialism · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Demonization · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Globalization · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Media studies · Newspaper · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Public health · Sociology · Disaster Response and Management · History · Law · Medicine
| Highly cited | No |
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