Being human during COVID-19 /

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

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.

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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)
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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.

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