Sweden's Pandemic Experiment / / Sigurd Bergmann, Martin Lindström, editors.

This book considers Sweden's pandemic management which differed so significantly from much of the rest of the world: it provoked intense and wide-reaching interest, curiosity and criticism. Trans-disciplinary Swedish authors fromthe humanities, life sciences, social sciences, and cultural studi...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Sweden Stumbles along the third way / Peter Baldwin
  • In the rupture between this and another world to come
  • introductory remarks on pandemic emergency and Sweden's response / Sigurd Bergmann and Martin Lindström
  • A timeline of events
  • December 2019 to February 2022 / Sigurd Bergmann
  • An expert authority without real experts? Deliberate disinformation from the Swedish public health agency on the SARS-CoV-2 infection's spread in the population / Anders Vahlne
  • The COVID-19-pandemic and the Swedish strategy
  • central aspects of the implementation of the strategy in relation to evidence-based medicine / Martin Lindström
  • The Swedish COVID-19 response
  • from poorly judged utilitarism to history revisionism and the tragedy of the commons / Emil Bergholtz
  • Learning from failure
  • mastering a pandemic in the triad of science, politics and trust / Sigurd Bergmann
  • Epidemiology and COVID-19
  • why numbers are important and can be misleading / Nele Brusselaers
  • The political economy of estimating immunity levels / Rodney Edvinsson
  • Children at the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic / Johanna Höög
  • The biopolitics of herd immunity / Lapo Lappin
  • Collaborators, supporters, and science judges : how trust in the public health agency's messaging was achieved / Kajsa Klein
  • Sweden unmasked : reading state and society through the pandemic / Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
  • Sweden's preventive medicine : a drastic end to a 280-year long story of success / Gunnar Steineck.