J. Michael Ryan, PhD, is associate professor of sociology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He has previously held academic positions in Portugal, Egypt, Ecuador, and the United States of America. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, DC. He is the editor of Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, Identities, and Politics (Routledge 2020), Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019), and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Lynne-Rienner 2020).

"As the world is caught up in a whirlwind of multiple crises – health, social, ecological, political – this is one of the first books that invite us to think creatively and analytically about COVID-19. A cutting-edge and comprehensive overview on the challenges we are facing. One can draw the conclusion that it is essential to incorporate a sociological view on health and illness when this pandemic sits where natural and cultural realities intersect. It is not about medical sociology but sociology tout court. These two volumes are compelling, timely and powerfully intelligent reading as books (and textbooks)." Dr. Sari Hanafi, President, International Sociological Association

• Timeline of COVID-19 1. Introduction: COVID-19: Social consequences and cultural adaptations 2. The SARS CoV-2 Virus and the COVID-19 Pandemic PART I: INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES 3. Rethinking What We Value: Pandemic teaching and the art of letting go 4. Disruption and Difficulty: Student and faculty perceptions of the transition to online instruction in the COVID-19 pandemic 5. Seeking Stability in Unstable Times: COVID-19 and the bureaucratic mindset 6. The Solution is the Problem: What a pandemic can reveal about policing 7. Housing as Healthcare: Mitigations of homelessness during a pandemic 8. COVID-19 and Reproductive Injustice: The implications of birthing restrictions during a pandemic 9. When Sports Stood Still: Covid-19 and the lost season PART II: COMMUNAL CONSEQUENCES AND CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS 10. The Political Nightmare of the Plague: The ironic resistance of anti-quarantine protestors 11. Toxic Wild West Syndrome: Individual rights vs. community needs 12. Innovation Diffusion, Social Capital, and Mask Mobilization: Culture change during the COVID-19 pandemic 13. Changing Times: New sources of parenting stress and the shifting meanings of time with and for children 14. Sites of Silence: Deaf online communication in the time of Corona 15. People’s Experiences and Attitudes During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States of America and Poland 16. Performing Precarity in Times of Uncertainty: The implications of COVID-19 on artists in Malta PART III: UNVEILING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES 17. Anti-Asian Racism, Responses, and the Impact on Asian-Americans’ Lives: A social-ecological perspective 18. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minority People 19. Virus, Violence, and Vitriol: The tale of COVID-19 20. High Risk or Low Worth? A few practical and philosophical issues surrounding the isolation of high-risk senior women

J. Michael Ryan, PhD, is associate professor of sociology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He has previously held academic positions in Portugal, Egypt, Ecuador, and the United States of America. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, DC. He is the editor of Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, Identities, and Politics (Routledge 2020), Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019), and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Lynne-Rienner 2020).

"As the world is caught up in a whirlwind of multiple crises – health, social, ecological, political – this is one of the first books that invite us to think creatively and analytically about COVID-19. A cutting-edge and comprehensive overview on the challenges we are facing. One can draw the conclusion that it is essential to incorporate a sociological view on health and illness when this pandemic sits where natural and cultural realities intersect. It is not about medical sociology but sociology tout court. These two volumes are compelling, timely and powerfully intelligent reading as books (and textbooks)." Dr. Sari Hanafi, President, International Sociological Association

• Timeline of COVID-19 1. Introduction: COVID-19: Social consequences and cultural adaptations 2. The SARS CoV-2 Virus and the COVID-19 Pandemic PART I: INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES 3. Rethinking What We Value: Pandemic teaching and the art of letting go 4. Disruption and Difficulty: Student and faculty perceptions of the transition to online instruction in the COVID-19 pandemic 5. Seeking Stability in Unstable Times: COVID-19 and the bureaucratic mindset 6. The Solution is the Problem: What a pandemic can reveal about policing 7. Housing as Healthcare: Mitigations of homelessness during a pandemic 8. COVID-19 and Reproductive Injustice: The implications of birthing restrictions during a pandemic 9. When Sports Stood Still: Covid-19 and the lost season PART II: COMMUNAL CONSEQUENCES AND CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS 10. The Political Nightmare of the Plague: The ironic resistance of anti-quarantine protestors 11. Toxic Wild West Syndrome: Individual rights vs. community needs 12. Innovation Diffusion, Social Capital, and Mask Mobilization: Culture change during the COVID-19 pandemic 13. Changing Times: New sources of parenting stress and the shifting meanings of time with and for children 14. Sites of Silence: Deaf online communication in the time of Corona 15. People’s Experiences and Attitudes During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States of America and Poland 16. Performing Precarity in Times of Uncertainty: The implications of COVID-19 on artists in Malta PART III: UNVEILING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES 17. Anti-Asian Racism, Responses, and the Impact on Asian-Americans’ Lives: A social-ecological perspective 18. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minority People 19. Virus, Violence, and Vitriol: The tale of COVID-19 20. High Risk or Low Worth? A few practical and philosophical issues surrounding the isolation of high-risk senior women

J. Michael Ryan, PhD, is associate professor of sociology at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. He has previously held academic positions in Portugal, Egypt, Ecuador, and the United States of America. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics in Washington, DC. He is the editor of Trans Lives in a Globalizing World: Rights, Identities, and Politics (Routledge 2020), Core Concepts in Sociology (Wiley 2019), and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Lynne-Rienner 2020).

"As the world is caught up in a whirlwind of multiple crises – health, social, ecological, political – this is one of the first books that invite us to think creatively and analytically about COVID-19. A cutting-edge and comprehensive overview on the challenges we are facing. One can draw the conclusion that it is essential to incorporate a sociological view on health and illness when this pandemic sits where natural and cultural realities intersect. It is not about medical sociology but sociology tout court. These two volumes are compelling, timely and powerfully intelligent reading as books (and textbooks)." Dr. Sari Hanafi, President, International Sociological Association

• Timeline of COVID-19 1. Introduction: COVID-19: Social consequences and cultural adaptations 2. The SARS CoV-2 Virus and the COVID-19 Pandemic PART I: INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES 3. Rethinking What We Value: Pandemic teaching and the art of letting go 4. Disruption and Difficulty: Student and faculty perceptions of the transition to online instruction in the COVID-19 pandemic 5. Seeking Stability in Unstable Times: COVID-19 and the bureaucratic mindset 6. The Solution is the Problem: What a pandemic can reveal about policing 7. Housing as Healthcare: Mitigations of homelessness during a pandemic 8. COVID-19 and Reproductive Injustice: The implications of birthing restrictions during a pandemic 9. When Sports Stood Still: Covid-19 and the lost season PART II: COMMUNAL CONSEQUENCES AND CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS 10. The Political Nightmare of the Plague: The ironic resistance of anti-quarantine protestors 11. Toxic Wild West Syndrome: Individual rights vs. community needs 12. Innovation Diffusion, Social Capital, and Mask Mobilization: Culture change during the COVID-19 pandemic 13. Changing Times: New sources of parenting stress and the shifting meanings of time with and for children 14. Sites of Silence: Deaf online communication in the time of Corona 15. People’s Experiences and Attitudes During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States of America and Poland 16. Performing Precarity in Times of Uncertainty: The implications of COVID-19 on artists in Malta PART III: UNVEILING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES 17. Anti-Asian Racism, Responses, and the Impact on Asian-Americans’ Lives: A social-ecological perspective 18. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minority People 19. Virus, Violence, and Vitriol: The tale of COVID-19 20. High Risk or Low Worth? A few practical and philosophical issues surrounding the isolation of high-risk senior women