Crises of Care

How and how well are individuals handling the threat of a ubiquitous invisible killer? How are people coping with death and bereavement; are they able to maintain their mental health? How might the politicizing of medical measures be avoided? How well do communities enlist their members in fighting a pandemic? Finally, what type of language is most effective for a pandemic and why, and what other resources in the humanities might society draw upon in this emergency? The World Health Organization estimated the COVID-19 pandemic killed in excess of 3.4 million people worldwide. The crucial, urgent contemporary question the medical and political worlds need to answer is: what must we learn from in order to avoid the worst consequences of the next one? These and many other pertinent questions arise in the essays selected and edited by Eszter Ureczky. Our hope at HJEAS Books is that by raising such questions this volume will contribute to nations and individuals being better prepared to face and overcome the next pandemic.