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Introduction: The role of humanities and social sciences at a time of crisis / Peter Sutoris and Sinéad Murphy -- The 'lockdown consensus' in the UK and the dangers of performative scientism / Anthony Mckeown -- Stopping the spread of health / Sinéad Murphy -- Pandemic response, cultural anthropology and 'the myth of the caring society' / Peter Sutoris -- Digital society, algorithmic harm, and the pandemic response / Mark Wong -- Against the logic of immunity : philosophy and the epidemic / Michael Lewis -- How the world's harshest lockdown unleashed a humanitarian crisis / Kunal R. Purohit -- Covid-19 in Angola : militarization of lockdown language and state policy in Angola / Fernandes Wanda -- The economic impact of Covid-19 lockdown policies in Argentina / Maddalena Cevese -- An analysis of the socio-economic impacts of the lockdown policy in Ghana / Samuel Adu-Gyamfi -- The Covid-19 syndemic and lessons (not) learned from past epidemics : one size doesn't fit all / Llanos Ortiz-Montero -- The proportionality of lockdowns / Kai Möller -- Lockdowns and intergenerational justice / Yossi Nehushtan -- Lockdown lived experience, illness, power and epistemic injustice / Roxana Baiasu -- What we lost in lockdown / Matthew Ratcliffe -- Do lockdowns work for women? The gendered impacts of the pandemic and policy responses / Rose Cook and Aleida Mendes Borges.

"Pandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns brings the vast analytical apparatus of the humanities and social sciences to the task of critically analysing the political decisions taken in 2020-21. The global response to the Covid-19 pandemic left little time for critical debate about the impact of lockdowns. Across the world, governments claimed to 'follow the science', but they rarely paid attention to the humanities and social sciences. Indeed, the absence of these perspectives is symptomatic of a longer-term trend in the marginalisation of the humanities and social sciences in policy-making and public debate. This book exposes the tragic consequences of this omission in 2020-21 and demonstrates the potential for a different path in the future - a path in which we pay attention to power, complexity, and our biases. The authors establish what these disciplines have to offer in a global emergency and how we can ensure they help us avoid the mistakes of 2020-21 in the future. This original and interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and researchers throughout the humanities and social sciences, including the fields of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, law, political science, and history, as well as relevant policy-makers"--

Organochlorine (OC) pesticides and the more persistent polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have well-established dose-dependent toxicities to birds, fish and mammals in experimental studies, but the actual impact of OC pollutants on European marine top predators remains unknown. Here we show that several cetacean species have very high mean blubber PCB concentrations likely to cause population declines and suppress population recovery. In a large pan-European meta-analysis of stranded (n = 929) or biopsied (n = 152) cetaceans, three out of four species:- striped dolphins (SDs), bottlenose dolphins (BNDs) and killer whales (KWs) had mean PCB levels that markedly exceeded all known marine mammal PCB toxicity thresholds. Some locations (e.g. western Mediterranean Sea, south-west Iberian Peninsula) are global PCB "hotspots" for marine mammals. Blubber PCB concentrations initially declined following a mid-1980s EU ban, but have since stabilised in UK harbour porpoises and SDs in the western Mediterranean Sea. Some small or declining populations of BNDs and KWs in the NE Atlantic were associated with low recruitment, consistent with PCB-induced reproductive toxicity. Despite regulations and mitigation measures to reduce PCB pollution, their biomagnification in marine food webs continues to cause severe impacts among cetacean top predators in European seas. ; The research was conducted by the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Program (CSIP) and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) under contract to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Devolved Governments of Scotland and Wales. Additional funding for toxicological analyses was provided by ASCOBANS under contract "SSFA2010-3" and by the Fundació Barcelona Zoo. The Gulf of Cádiz and Strait of Gibraltar samples collection were sponsored by Loro Parque Foundation, Fundación Biodiversidad, CEPSA and ECOCET Project (CGL2011-25543) and logistical support for sample sexing was provided by Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC (LEM-EBD). Samples from Galicia were obtained with the support of Direccion Xeral de Conservacion da Natureza-Xunta de Galicia, co-financed with European Regional Development Funds (ERDF/FEDER). S. Murphy was supported by a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship within the Seventh European Community Framework Programme. R. de Stephanis and J. Giménez were supported by the Severo Ochoa Programme for Centres of Excellence in R + D + I (SEV-2012-0262). A. D. Foote was supported by a Lawski Foundation stipend. ; Peer reviewed