Napier, AD;
Fischer, EF;
(2020)
Misunderstanding a Viral Pandemic: The Social and Cultural Contexts of COVID-19.
Social Research: An International Quarterly
, 87
(2)
pp. 271-277.
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Abstract
IT IS RARE THAT SOCIAL THEORY CAN SAVE LIVES, BUT THE CONCEPTUAL framework through which viral pandemics are largely understood costs lives by failing to include key insights based in social theory. In this paper, we employ a cultural contexts of health approach to show how the ways in which viral transmission is conceptualized, and misunderstood, affect how society deals with pandemics.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Misunderstanding a Viral Pandemic: The Social and Cultural Contexts of COVID-19 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/764868#info_wrap |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10117070 |
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