Buy What Went Wrong by Gregory E. Pence - Bookswagon
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Home > Society and Social Sciences > Society and culture: general > Social and ethical issues > Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made) > What Went Wrong: America's Covid Response and Lessons for the Future
What Went Wrong: America's Covid Response and Lessons for the Future

What Went Wrong: America's Covid Response and Lessons for the Future


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



International Edition


X
About the Book

We thought we were a nation ready for any crisis. Covid showed us how much we have yet to learn. America's response to Covid cost too many lives, set our children back in their education, and forever damaged our trust in our government's ability to protect and guide us through crises. Conflicting values and strategies received too little ethical consideration as we blindly followed an overly simplified prime directive to stop infections and save lives. In What Went Wrong, Gregory Pence reveals how the best of intentions resulted in disastrous consequences for our nation. As many as 400,000 non-Covid deaths occurred as a by-product of poor planning and implementation of medical policies. We continue to realize the long-term effects on our nation, including millions of children now being years behind in reading and math. Proportionally, America suffered more deaths during the pandemic than any other developed country. So where do we go from here? Hindsight on the pandemic shows us how important and complex the ethical implications of public health policy are. Unless we learn from America's failures, the next pandemic could be even worse.

Table of Contents:
Preface Chapter 1. The Prime Directive Chapter 2. Overview of Viruses, Pandemics, and Covid Chapter 3. Education on Lockdown Chapter 4. Who Shall Live When Not All Can? Chapter 5. Philosophical Questions Raised by Pandemics Chapter 6. Investigating Covid’s Origins Chapter 7. Vaccines and their Ethical Issues Chapter 8. Truthful Messaging, Testing, and Public Trust Chapter 9. Censoring False Messages about Covid and Vaccines Chapter 10. Abandoning the Dying and the Infirms Chapter 11. Failures of Contact Tracing Chapter 12. Federal Largesse during Covid Chapter 13. Failures of International Cooperation Chapter 14. Rethinking Vaccine Mandates Chapter 15. Changes Accelerated by Covid Chapter 16. The Challenge of Long Covid and Disability Chapter 17. The Mysteries of Good and Bad Covid Leadership Chapter 18. Why Operation Warp Speed Almost Didn’t Happen Chapter 19. Future Problems and Positives

About the Author :
Gregory Pence is an award-winning bioethicist with nearly 50 years' of experience in the field, teaching at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center. His books include Pandemic Bioethics, Brave New Bioethics, How to Build a Better Human: An Ethical Blueprint, and Overcoming Addiction: Seven Imperfect Solutions and the End of America's Greatest Epidemic. He lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Review :
What Went Wrong takes a long, hard look at how the pandemic was handled in America. As Covid is unlikely to be the last pandemic, this book is a necessary stimulus to think hard about how we can do better next time. A wonderfully clear, even-handed, and insightful analysis of all the things that went wrong (and the few that went right) in handling the Covid pandemic. An essential text on the US Covid pandemic response. As a long-standing bioethicist, Pence has a clear-eyed view of how the excessively political Covid response in the US contributed to poorer outcomes in the country. Pence discusses harm reduction as a strategy to manage pandemics, the loss of trust in public health in the US, and ways—?via an honest appraisal and hard look at our response—?to regain that trust. This is a well-referenced and brilliant examination with a profoundly hopeful viewpoint that ethics will win out in future pandemics. What Went Wrong covers the most controversial aspects of the US handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s clear from reading the book that one of the biggest failures in the US response to COVID-19 was a failure of leadership, from our scientific and public health institutions to the White House. Greg provides an astute and painful reminder of what went wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is a vital and necessary exercise to prevent it from happening again. Unless we learn from our past, we are destined to repeat it.


Best Sellers


Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781538199701
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 200
  • Sub Title: America's Covid Response and Lessons for the Future
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 153819970X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Apr 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 290 gr


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
What Went Wrong: America's Covid Response and Lessons for the Future
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC -
What Went Wrong: America's Covid Response and Lessons for the Future
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

What Went Wrong: America's Covid Response and Lessons for the Future

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    Fresh on the Shelf


    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!