Governing human lives and health in pandemic times : social control policies / edited by Matilda Hellman, Tom Kettunen, Saara Salmivaara, and Janne Stoneham.

"Governing Human Lives and Health in Pandemic Times looks into the instruments and the type of reasoning involved when large-scale social control strategies were implemented worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The repertoires of institutional and administrative governance tools used during the pandemic are studied in their unique institutional, socio-geographic and cultural settings, in order to form an understanding of the political climates and the values inscribed in current societal contracts. The book is intended for academic audiences interested in policy research, health governance, and civil societal issues. It will be of great relevance and use for a wide audience of policy-makers, public officials and health care planners as well as students in a broad range of disciplines"-- Provided by publisher.

IntroductionMatilda Hellman, Tom Kettunen, Saara Salmivaara, and Janne StonehamPART I: Communicating a pandemic 1. The role of the Italian press in times of pandemics: Old features in the face of a new riskMarco Mazzoni, Roberto Mincigrucci, Susanna Pagiotti, Anna Stanziano, and Sofia Verza 2. Re-vitalising discourses of solidarity: Governing populations in times of uncertainty and crisisAnna-Lisa Müller and Leonie Tuitjer 3. Calm chess player or self-aware administrator? How the Finnish and Swedish public health agencies addressed the public during the corona outbreakMatilda Hellman, Saara Salmivaara, and Janne Stoneham PART II: Autonomy, rights, and choice 4. A Battle Over Birth: Contestations, Lived Experiences and the Restrictive Policy of Finnish Birth Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic​Kaisa Kuurne and Anna Leppo 5. Stuck between health-related and socioeconomic risks. Managing the pandemic in IndiaDayabati RoyPART III: Political and ideological struggles 6.The Effects of a Hegemonizing Negationist Narrative in BrazilFábio Malini, Ana Paula Miranda Costa Bergami, Camilla Reisler Cavalcanti, Marcela Tessarolo Bastos, and Lígia Iunes Venturott7. When counting counts: Politics of quantification and the government of Covid-19 in São PauloDaniel Edler Duarte, Letícia Simões Gomes, and Alcides Peron PART IV: Framing control policy options 8. The framing of harms to children and youth due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden, Finland and Ontario, Canada in relation to school lockdownsHeather Bullock, Gabriella Dahlberg, Petra Kouvonen, and Fredrik Lindencrona 9. Nudge: Behavioural Science, Normative Discourse, and the Art of Consent​Ben Harbisher PART V: Summary and conclusions 10. Conclusions: Social control policies within current societal contracts Matilda Hellman, Tom Kettunen, Saara Salmivaara, and Janne Stoneham