{"product_id":"pandemic-in-britain-paperback-softback","title":"Pandemic in Britain - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a political analysis and sociological critique of the UK government’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, interpreting the inadequacies of government policy with regard to COVID-19 as the results of neoliberal ideology, the protection of corporate interests, Brexit nationalism, and the peculiarities of a British model of capitalism based on international trade and labour market precarity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that institutionalized corporate-capitalist control of state and science generates new and growing public health risks, and that consumer-driven individualism has eroded community life and the protections this might offer against pandemics, the author contends that the UK government’s catastrophic response to the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of peculiarly British socioeconomic and political phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pandemic in Britain will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy and politics with interests in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as neoliberal ideology and its manifestation in political life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45601193296110,"sku":"9781032229850","price":62.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/pandemic-in-britain-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}