Manderson, L and Burke, N.J (Eds).
Covid's Chronicities: From urgency to stasis in a pandemic era.
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UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
COVID-19 continues to cause severe morbidity and ongoing mortality. Covid’s Chronicities documents the shifts that have occurred in the face of the pandemic, the state and community responses to it, its continuing toll on health services, economies and communities, and its compounding effects on people’s health, lives and livelihoods. This volume draws on research from across Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Africa, providing surprising contrasts and consistencies of experience. As the pandemic has shifted from urgency to chronic unpredictability, everywhere people have struggled to make sense of state actions in infection control, testing strategies and the roll out of vaccines, and to remake social life. The contributing authors illustrate with poignancy how chronic social problems and pandemic effects have worked bidirectionally, compounding multiple inequalities and exacerbating, for some, despair and disassociation. They also demonstrate the ingenuity of communities – of Indigenous ways of knowing and providing care in some settings, and elsewhere, the power of robust local community networks and informal innovations. While this book exposes the pandemic’s exploitation of deep structures of state and societal neglect, and describes the resultant morass, it also illustrates the determination and imaginations of caring communities to withstand Covid’s harms.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Covid's Chronicities: From urgency to stasis in a pandemic era |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800088078 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800088078 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088078 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2025 Text © Contributors, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. 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 owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. and Burke, N.J. (eds). 2025. Covid’s Chronicities: From urgency to stasis in a pandemic era. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088078Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | medical anthropology, pandemic responses, long Covid |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207091 |
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