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Lesson Materials
June 22nd: Reframing the Future? Policy Change and Cultural Adaptation
Crises can create new possibilities, but that outcome is not guaranteed. Will Covid-19 lead to large scale policy and cultural change? We consider what theories in political science and anthropology have to tell us.
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June 24th: When Will It Be Safe To Go Out Again? Challenges in Vaccine Development, and Why It May Be OK Without One
This lecture will explore the basic principles of vaccination in order to discuss some of the challenges in making a vaccine, with the goal to help to reset expectations of when a viable vaccine for SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 will be available to the public. It will also discuss several new ideas being tested to decrease the time for a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, both the advantages and the risks. Finally, we will cover other ways to manage the pandemic that are more readily available or likely to have a shorter time to reach the public than a vaccine.
Video Lecture
Assigned Readings
Additional Resources
Want to learn more? Below are other articles, videos, infographics, etc. that will provide further information on this week's topics.
June 22nd: Reframing the Future? Policy Change and Cultural Adaptation
June 24th: When Will It Be Safe To Go Out Again? Challenges in Vaccine Development, and Why It May Be OK Without One
Recommended Databases
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June 22nd: Reframing the Future? Policy Change and Cultural Adaptation
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. It features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and lexicographers and contains abstracts for more than 1,300 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895.
- Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new windowProvides access to current bibliographic information and cited references, covering more than 1700 of the world's leading social sciences journals in a broad range of disciplines. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from leading natural and physical science journals. The ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts (science and social sciences), and cited references. Researchers can search the citation data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper and finding other, more recent papers that cite it.
June 24th: When Will It Be Safe To Go Out Again? Challenges in Vaccine Development, and Why It May Be OK Without One
- bioRxiv (Open Access)Open access repository for unpublished preprints/articles in the life sciences before peer review completion and certification by a journal.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowPubMed comprises more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900.
Search Terms
Knowing what terms to use to search for resources on COVID19 is half the battle. For this week's lectures, we would recommend starting with the following keywords.
June 22nd: Reframing the Future? Policy Change and Cultural Adaptation
- Psychological Effect
- Medical Anthropology
- Labor Politics
- Guaranteed Income
June 24th: When Will It Be Safe To Go Out Again? Challenges in Vaccine Development, and Why It May Be OK Without One
- Gene-based Vaccines
- mRNA Vaccines
- Clinical Trials
- Antigens
- Pandemic Speed