Being human during COVID-19 / / edited by Paul Martin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Martin, P. A. 1959-
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, England : : Bristol Univesity Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Bristol research shorts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)

This transdisciplinary collection engages with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and knowledge in the context of COVID-19 for a more equitable and inclusive human future.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Being Human During Covid-19 -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on Contributors -- PART I Knowing Humans -- ONE Making Models into Public Objects -- What's missing from evidence-based policy? -- Science and politics in pandemic modelling -- Inequalities, biases and pandemic modelling -- Making models into public objects -- References -- TWO Pandemics, Metaphors and What It Means to Be Human -- Knowledge and human knowledge -- Metaphors that make us less human -- Metaphors that make us more human -- Conclusion -- References -- THREE The Role of Everyday Visuals in 'Knowing Humans' During COVID-19 -- References -- FOUR Humans, COVID-19 and Platform Societies -- Microblogging the pandemic in different platform ecosystems -- Platforms, values, and voices -- Notes -- References -- FIVE Managing Pandemic Risk in an Interconnected World: What Planning a Wedding Shows about Early Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak -- Introduction -- Disrupting normality -- Fragmented concerns and understandings -- The ethics of movement in an uncertain world -- References -- PART II Marginalized Humans -- SIX Imperilled Humanities: Locked Down, Locked In and Lockdown Politics During the Pandemic -- Introduction -- Locked down -- Locked in -- Lockdown politics -- References -- SEVEN "Why Would I Go to Hospital if It's Not Going to Try and Save Me?": Disabled Young People's Experiences of the COVID-19 Crisis -- Introduction -- "I know full well in this COVID-19 pandemic that my life is not one that will be saved": managing discourses of human worth -- "How are disabled people expected to protect themselves?": making sense of the new risks of care and caring -- "What life is really like for us": everyday experiences of isolation -- Conclusion -- References -- EIGHT Science Advice for COVID-19 and Marginalized Communities in India.

Introduction -- Science advice for the pandemic and its 'public' -- Publics in response to science advice -- The obedient subject -- The disobedient migrant/labourer -- The critical citizen -- The invisible sufferers -- Conclusion -- References -- NINE Pandemic Satire and Human Hierarchies -- References -- PART III Biosocial Humans -- TEN Genomic Medicine and the Remaking of Human Health -- A vision of genomic medicine to improve personal and population health -- Genomics England and the rollout of whole genome sequencing -- Integrating genomic data and medical records -- The expansion of genetic screening and testing services -- References -- ELEVEN Frailty and the Value of a Human in COVID-19 Times -- Acknowledgements -- References -- TWELVE "I've Got People's Spit All over Me!": Reflections on the Future of Life-Saving Stem Cell Donor Recruitment -- Introduction -- Stem cell transplantation and racial inequity -- Event cancelled: the necessary cessation of recruitment work -- Goodbye, buy-in? The importance of in-person recruitment work -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- THIRTEEN Science Told Me (But I Couldn't See Its Point) -- Note -- PART IV Human Futures -- FOURTEEN Where Will an Emerging Post-COVID-19 Future Position the Human? -- Introduction -- Patterns before COVID-19 -- The economy versus the human during COVID-19 -- (Re)-positioning the human in a post-COVID-19 future -- Notes -- References -- FIFTEEN (Genome) Editing Future Societies -- Note -- References -- SIXTEEN Inclusive Education in the Post-COVID-19 World -- Introduction -- Inclusive education during COVID-19 -- Future conceptions of inclusive education -- Conclusion -- References -- SEVENTEEN From TINA to TAMA: Social Futures and Democratic Dreaming in the Ruins of Capitalist Realism -- References -- Conclusion: Thinking about 'the Human' during COVID-19 Times.

Knowing humans -- Marginalized humans -- Biosocial humans -- Human futures -- Index -- Back Cover.