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Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place: Risk Assessment and Ethical Dilemmas in the Time of Covid-19
The View From The Front Line As Osteopath/Medical Anthropologist
MARIA LARRAIN
A week ago, the diary started to look unusually quiet but not surprising giving how the news about coronavirus was unfolding. I had expected that we may have to close if a full lockdown was enforced and started to look into taking video consultations or what is also known as Telehealth.
Life Under Quarantine, and now Surveillance: A Dispatch From Greece
ALEXIA LIAKOUNAKOU
Memoirs From A Month in the Future
LOUIS A G WILKES
COVID-19: We are the ‘underlying conditions’
LUCY NEILAND
Repost from Ipsos MORI
Coronavirus- Is this our Microbiopolitical Moment?
DARREN OLLERTON
Despite following the early emergence of coronavirus with zeal — a combination of intellectual intrigue and morbid fascination with the science fiction potential of pandemic — it took me some time to fully digest the wholesale impact of the current contagion. I can’t deny that this may also have been somewhat facilitated by the pantomime of leadership on the issue, which can only be described as dark satire; fronted by a warbling narcissist full of the delusion of his pedigree.
Same Virus, Different Temporalities: Anticipations From Mexico
LAURA MONTESI
21st of March – Oaxaca, Mexico – Day 5 of voluntary quarantine
It’s the 21st of March and the official epidemiological record in Mexico reports 203 confirmed cases of Covid-19, 606 suspicious cases, and 2 deaths. Compared with the 47,021 cases of people detected with SARS-Cov-2 in Italy or the 19,980 in Spain since the beginning of the epidemic outbreak, the Mexican numbers still look contained.
Grasping for Unity in a Divided Britain: Ageism, Brexit-Era Politics & the COVID-19 ‘Boomer Remover’
REBECCA IRONS
On the 19th March, the day before Boris Johnson ordered restaurants closed, I walked past the window of a packed Wagamama.
The day that it had been announced that London would be facing lockdown, tube stations would be closing, and the UK had reached a state of emergency…and there, in that Wagamama, was a group of young adults, so manned that they filled one of the restaurant chain’s distinctive long benches with spill-over.
Coronavirus and Social Isolation: 16 Insights from Digital Anthropology
GEORGIANA MURARIU
Repost from Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing
We recently conducted nine 16 month studies on the use of smartphones by older people, which is the main source of insights here. You can read more about the project here.
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