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 a positive global health profile. This volume balances the argument that diseases and pandemics are human problems that demand both scientific and humanistic interventions.
|
1 Introduction: Humanity and Disease Discourse |
|
|
1 | (12) |
|
|
|
|
|
Part I Humanistic Understanding of Disease |
|
|
13 | (82) |
|
2 Toward a Fuller Understanding of the Enigma of Health |
|
|
15 | (18) |
|
|
|
3 Ubuntu and COVID-19: A Philosophical Reflection |
|
|
33 | (18) |
|
|
|
4 Limits of Science-Based Approaches in Global Health: Sociocultural and Moral Lessons from Ebola and COVID-19 |
|
|
51 | (24) |
|
|
|
5 The Vaccination Mandate Debate Revisited |
|
|
75 | (20) |
|
|
|
Part II Critical Framing of the Pandemic in Africa |
|
|
95 | (232) |
|
6 An African Perspective on the Ethics and Politics of Foreign Medical Aid in a Pandemic |
|
|
97 | (26) |
|
|
|
|
|
7 Disease Discourses, African Knowledge Systems, and COVID-19 in Senegal |
|
|
123 | (28) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8 Enulebox Ethical Imperative of Yoruba Thought on Eating for COVID-19-Related Crises |
|
|
151 | (20) |
|
|
|
9 Epidemiology and an Epistemic Evaluation of the Management of COVID-19 in Nigeria |
|
|
171 | (26) |
|
|
|
|
|
10 Borders, Boundaries, and Identities: Navigating the Barriers to Solidarity and Cohesion in a Pandemic |
|
|
197 | (26) |
|
|
|
|
|
11 Discourses of the Wandering Almajiri Child as Representation of the (Post-) COVID Generation |
|
|
223 | (24) |
|
|
|
|
|
12 Quarantining the Holy Spirit: Africa and the Pentecostal Economy of COVID-19 Pandemic |
|
|
247 | (36) |
|
|
|
13 On Pandemic Planning and the Frontline Workers in Nigeria |
|
|
283 | (20) |
|
|
|
14 Dialogism and Polyphony in the Interpretations of COVID-19 Discourse in Zimbabwe |
|
|
303 | (24) |
|
|
|
|
|
Part III Representing COVID-19 |
|
|
327 | (156) |
|
15 Cartooning COVID-19 on Facebook |
|
|
329 | (24) |
|
|
|
16 "It's in Your Hands": Communicating a Pandemic to a Disengaged Public |
|
|
353 | (20) |
|
|
|
17 Musical Representations of COVID-19 on Social Media Among Young People in Nigeria |
|
|
373 | (28) |
|
|
|
Jeremiah Oluwadara Omotayo |
|
|
18 COVID-19, Food and Freedom to Worship: An Analytic Approach to Nigeria's Religioscape |
|
|
401 | (26) |
|
|
|
19 Analysis of COVID-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement on Social Media in Nigeria |
|
|
427 | (34) |
|
|
|
|
|
20 COVID-19 (Post)Proverbials: Twisting the Word Against the Virus |
|
|
461 | (22) |
|
|
| Index |
|
483 | |
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).
Daugiau apie elektronines knygas