{"product_id":"9780821425015-masks-misinformation-making-do","title":"Masks, Misinformation, and Making Do","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAppalachian Health-Care Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe firsthand pandemic experiences of rural health-care providers—who were already burdened when COVID-19 hit—raise questions about the future of public health and health-care delivery.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This volume comprises the COVID-19 pandemic experiences of Appalachian health-care workers, including frontline providers, administrators, and educators. The combined narrative reveals how governmental and corporate policies exacerbated the region's injustices, stymied response efforts, and increased the death toll.\u003cbr\u003e Beginning with an overview of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its impact on the body, the essays in the book's first section provide background material and contextualize the subsequent explosion of telemedicine, the pandemic's impact on medical education, and its relationship to systemic racism and related disparities in mental health treatment.\u003cbr\u003e Next, first-person narratives from diverse perspectives recount the pandemic's layered stresses, including \u003cbr\u003e the scramble for ventilators, masks, and other personal protective equipment\u003cbr\u003e the neighbors, friends, and family members who flouted public-health mandates, convinced that COVID-19 was a hoax\u003cbr\u003e the added burden the virus leveled on patients whose health was already compromised by cancer, diabetes, or addiction\u003cbr\u003e the acute ways the pandemic's arrival exacerbated interpersonal and systemic racism that Black and other health-care workers of color bear \u003cbr\u003e not only the battle against the virus but also the growing suspicion and even physical abuse from patients convinced that doctors and nurses were trying to kill them \u003cbr\u003e These visceral, personal experiences of how Appalachian health-care workers responded to the pandemic amid the nation's deeply polarized political discourse will shape the historical record of this \"unprecedented time\" and provide a glimpse into the future of rural medicine.\u003cbr\u003e Contributors: Lucas Aidukaitis, Clay Anderson, Tammy Bannister, Alli Delp, Lynn Elliott, Monika Holbein, Laura Hungerford, Nikki King, Brittany Landore, Jeffrey J. LeBoeuf, Sojourner Nightingale, Beth O'Connor, Rakesh Patel, Mildred E. Perreault, Melanie B. Richards, Tara Smith, Kathy Osborne Still, Darla Timbo, Kathy Hsu Wibberly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40810215309409,"sku":"9780821425015","price":40.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38241463_bbcdeeed-5665-499d-8e3f-92504b3f03de.jpg?v=1763843780","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780821425015-masks-misinformation-making-do","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}