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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 apositive global health profile. This volume balances the argument that diseases and pandemics are human problems that demand both scientific and humanistic interventions.

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Author:   Francis Egbokhare ,  Adeshina Afolayan
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.796kg
ISBN:  

9783031174285

ISBN 10:   3031174283
Pages:   491
Publication Date:   25 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Humanity, the Humanities and Disease Discourse Chapter One Toward a Fuller Understanding of the Enigma of Health Peter Amato Chapter Two Ubuntu and COVID-19: A Philosophical Reflection MSC Okolo Chapter Three Limits of Science-based Approaches in Global Health: Socio-Cultural and Moral Lessons from Ebola and Covid-19 Samuel J. Ujewe Chapter Four The Vaccination Mandate Debate Revisited Peter Aloysius Ikhane Part II: Critical Framing of the Pandemic in Africa Chapter Five An African Perspective on the Ethics and Politics of Foreign Medical Aid in a Pandemic Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan & Ademola Kazeem Fayemi Chapter Six Disease Discourses, African Knowledge Systems, and COVID-19 in Senegal Karen Barton, Jieun Lee, & Ivan Ramirez Chapter Seven Ẹnulẹbọ: Ethical Imperative of Yorùbá Thought on Eating for Covid-19 Related Crises Adewale O. Owoseni Chapter Eight Epidemiology and an Epistemic Evaluation of the Management of Covid-19 in Nigeria Anselm Jimoh & Francis Ikhialosime Chapter Nine Borders, Boundaries and Identities: Navigating the Barriers to Solidarity and Cohesion in a Pandemic Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan & Wasiu Abiodun Balogun Chapter Ten Discourses of the Wandering Almajiri Child as Representation of the (post-) COVID Generation Malami Buba & Mika’ilu Ibrahim Chapter Eleven Quarantining the Holy Spirit: Africa and the Pentecostal Economy of COVID-19 Pandemic Asonzeh Ukah Chapter Twelve On Pandemic Planning and the Front-line Workers in Nigeria Damilola Victoria Oduola Chapter Thirteen Dialogism and Polyphony in the Interpretations of COVID-19 Discourse Tobias Marevesa & Esther Mavengano Part III: Representing COVID-19 Chapter Fourteen Cartooning COVID on Facebook James Yeku Chapter Fifteen “It’s in your hands”: Communicating a Pandemic to a Disengaged Public Eyitayo Aloh Chapter Sixteen Musical (Re)presentations of COVID-19 on Social Media among Young People in Nigeria Samuel Ajose & Jeremiah Omotayo Chapter Seventeen Covid-19, Food and Freedom to Worship: An Analytic Approach to Nigeria’s Religioscape Benson Ohihon Igboin Chapter Eighteen Covid-19 Risk Communication and Community Engagement on Social Media in Nigeria Abiola Odejide & Yinka Egbokhare Chapter Nineteen COVID-19 (Post)proverbials: Twisting the Word Against the Virus Remi Raji-Oyelade

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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).

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