Panic

by Keith Tester

Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen?

This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop an original analysis of panic in contemporary social life. Bringing together academic literature from a range of disciplines, films, novels and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041563105X
• ISBN13: 9780415631051
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 132 Pages