Manderson, L and Burke, N.J. and Wahlberg, A (Eds).
Viral Loads: Anthropologies of urgency in
the time of COVID-19.
[Book].
Embodying Inequalities.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Drawing upon the empirical scholarship and research expertise of contributors from all settled continents and from diverse life settings and economies, Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto people’s lived realities in countries around the world. A crosscutting theme pertains to how social unevenness and gross economic disparities are shaping global and local responses to the pandemic, and illustrate the effects of both the virus and efforts to contain it in ways that amplify these inequalities. At the same time, the contributions highlight the nature of contemporary social life, including virtual communication, the nature of communities, neoliberalism and contemporary political economies, and the shifting nature of nation states and the role of government. Over half of the world’s population has been affected by restrictions of movement, with physical distancing requirements and self-isolation recommendations impacting profoundly on everyday life but also on the economy, resulting also, in turn, with dramatic shifts in the economy and in mass unemployment. By reflecting on how the pandemic has interrupted daily lives, state infrastructures and healthcare systems, the contributing authors in this volume mobilise anthropological theories and concepts to locate the pandemic in a highly connected and exceedingly unequal world. The book is ambitious in its scope – spanning the entire globe – and daring in its insistence that medical anthropology must be a part of the growing calls to build a new world.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Viral Loads: Anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800080232 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800080232 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800080232 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2021 Text © Contributors, 2021 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2021 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Manderson, L., Burke, N.J. and Wahlberg, A. (eds). 2021. Viral Loads: Anthropogies of urgency in the time of COVID-19. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/ 111.9781800080232 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creative commons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | medical anthropology, healthcare, pandemic |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133562 |
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