ABSTRACT

COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities provides critical insights into the tensions between individual rights and community responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Questions about mandates, lockdowns, priorities, and broader questions related to neighborly responsibilities and human rights have been central to debates about how to confront the pandemic. The scholarship presented in this volume adds to those debates by confronting such issues as the role of social media in spreading misinformation, mask mandates, pandemic politics, and the very ethos of what is meant by human and individual rights.

Drawing on the expertise of scholars from around the world, the work presented here represents a remarkable diversity and quality of impassioned scholarship on the impact of COVID-19 and is a timely and critical advance in knowledge related to the pandemic.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|26 pages

Balancing Rights With Responsibilities

Citizens' Responses to Expert Systems

chapter 4|23 pages

Going Viral

How Social Media Increased the Spread of COVID-19 Misinformation

chapter 5|14 pages

Masks, Mandates, and Mayhem

The Moral Panic Amidst a Pandemic

chapter 6|14 pages

Demonizing the Nightlife

The “Pandemic Panic” and Youth Responses in Portugal and Spain

chapter 8|15 pages

Spreading the Disease

Risk Mismanagement in the Age of COVID-19

chapter 9|13 pages

Taking Responsibility

COVID-19 and the Possibilities of Participatory Communication During Crisis

chapter 12|16 pages

No Magic Bullets

Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Future of Health and Human Rights