Pandemic in Britain

<p>This 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. </p><p>Arguing 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.</p><p>The 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.</p>