Viral Loads : : anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19 / / edited by Lenore Manderson, Nancy Jean Burke, Ayo Wahlber.

• TeilnehmendeR: Wahlber, Ayo,; Burke, Nancy Jean,; Manderson, Lenore,
• Place / Publishing House: London, England : : UCL Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 466 pages)

Viral Loads provides a global response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the field of medical anthropology.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Stratified Livability and Pandemic Effects -- Part I: The Power of the State -- 2 Care in the Time of COVID-19: Surveillance, Creativity and Sociolismo in Cuba -- 3 Militarising the Pandemic: Lockdown in South Africa -- 4 Rights, Responsibilities and Revelations: COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and the State -- Part II: Exclusion and Blame -- 5 The 2020 Los Angeles Uprisings: Fighting for Black Lives in the Midst of COVID-19 6 The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in the UK: Racism, Nationalism and the Afterlife of Colonialism -- 7 The Shroud Stealers: Coronavirus and the Viral Vagility of Prejudice -- 8 Unprecedented Times? Romanian Roma and Discrimination During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 9 Turkey's Diyanet and Political Islam During the Pandemic -- 10 Citizen Vector: Scapegoating within Communal Boundaries in Senegal During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Part III: Unequal Burdens -- 11 Pandemic Policy Responses and Embodied Realities Among 'Waste-Pickers' in India -- 12 The Amplification Effect: Impacts of COVID-19 on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Indonesia -- 13 Vulnerabilities within and Beyond the Pandemic: Disability in COVID-19 Brazil -- 14 'You are Putting My Health at Risk': Genes, Diets and Bioethics Under COVID-19 in Mexico -- 15 Scarcity and Resilience in the Slums of Dhaka City, Bangladesh -- Part IV: The reach of care -- 16 Making Do: COVID-19 and the Improvisation of Care in the UK and US -- 17 Carescapes Unsettled: COVID-19 and the Reworking of 'Stable Illnesses' in Welfare State Denmark 18 Care within or Out of Reach: Fantasies of Care and Connectivity in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 19 Pandemic Times in a WhatsApp-ed Nation: Gender Ideologies in India During COVID-19 -- 20 Purity's Dangers: At the Interstices of Religion and Public Health in Israel -- Part V: Lessons for a Future -- 21 Fracturing the Pandemic: The Logic of Separation and Infectious Disease in Tanzania -- 22 Living Together in Precarious Times: COVID-19 in the Philippines -- 23 COVID-19 in Italy: A New Culture of Healthcare for Future Preparedness -- Index -- Back Cover.