The Hospital Multiple: Introduction by Janina Kehr
Since COVID-19 has come to haunt the globe, hospitals in all their guises have featured centrally in the pandemic response. As the flagships of health systems, hospitals have…
Tag: COVID-19
Una aproximación a la relación entre la genética Neandertal y el COVID-19
El reciente estudio, publicado en la revista Nature por Svante Pääbo y Hugo Zeberg del Instituto Max Planck de Antropología Evolutiva en Leipzig, en el que se habla…
Podcast # 2 is online! Guest: Aleeha Ali
In this episode, Puck de Boer talks with Aleeha Ali, who studied sociology in Pakistan, did a research master’s in anthropology in the UK and is currently a…
The ICT Poverty Trap: How Technology Disparities Exacerbate the Spread of Disease and Division in Jamaica
A view of the street side in Kingston, Jamaica’s capital. A leaning telecommunications tower, symbolic of the island’s deficient ICT infrastructure, separates the stalls of informal street vendors…
The Work it Takes to Stop Working: Productivity in Labs and Sugarcane
In spring of 2020, thousands of scientific labs across several continents shut down. What was deemed “non-essential” research was ramped down and/or paused in an effort to stop…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Consciously (Re)Quarantined
As nations across Europe find the inevitable domino of new national lockdowns knocking into them, we may all approach ‘this time’ differently from the last. During the interim…
Ep #66 Method Adaptations, Big Bugs & aguaje: Diana Tung on Doing Fieldwork During Covid-19
The Familiar Strange · Ep #66 Method Adaptations, Big Bugs & aguaje: Diana Tung on Doing Fieldwork During Covid-19 “How much time do you actually need to spend…
Health Care Workers and COVID-19
Check out the newest set of COVID resources slide deck focused on Health Care Workers -cases-mortality- stress and burnout and attrition. Health-care workers account for 1 in 7…
Health Care Workers and COVID-19
Check out the newest set of COVID resources slide deck focused on Health Care Workers -cases-mortality- stress and burnout and attrition. Health-care workers account for 1 in 7…
A Revision of Outdated Course Policies Is Long Overdue
We need to humanize our course policies and practices and eliminate those that marginalize some students while privileging others. Professors: Students are under no obligation whatsoever to disclose…
Ludwik Fleck where are you now that we need you? Covid-19 and the genesis of epidemiological facts by Ilana Löwy
Tests for Covid-19 and the politics of big numbers We are incessantly flooded with data on the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. WHO and the Johns Hopkins coronavirus…
Mourning while fighting for justice: The first months of the NOI DENUNCEREMO association, Bergamo, Italy by Chiara Alfieri
This post was co-authored by members of CoMeSCov program who contributed to the development of research questions, data collection tools and data analysis: Firmin Kra, Francesca Mininel, Fleur…
Ethnomedicinal Practices and Behavioral Changes During Deadly Disease Outbreaks: A Commentary and Lesson from Cameroon by Ivo Ngade
In mid-2014, six months after the death of patient zero, the two-year-old boy in the village of Meliandou in Guinea, there were frequent reports of Ebola spikes across Guinea…
DIGITALE ETHNOGRAFIE IN CORONA-ZEITEN IV
In dem vierten Beitrag der Blogserie beschäftigen sich die Studierenden mit dem Umgang mit Trauer und Verstorbenen in der Corona-Krise, in der physischer Kontakt und Nähe nur sehr…
Staying (at Home) with Brain Fog: “Un-witting” Patient Activism by Emily Lim Rogers
Scene 1: It’s Sunday afternoon, around one o’clock, and a group of a dozen or so people log onto a video call from their apartments. Occasionally someone’s cat…
Digitale Ethnografie in Corona-Zeiten III
Der dritte Teil der Blogserie, in der sich 5 studentische Feldforschungsprojekte zur Coronavirus Pandemie vorstellen. Dieses Mal: Normalität in Zeiten von Corona – Forschungsübung im Methode…
Cuban Food Security in a Time of COVID-19
The pandemic has created new opportunities and barriers to food access in Cuba’s two largest cities. Even before Cuba’s first case of COVID-19 was detected on March 11,…
Interview: On COVID-19 & digital technologies in everyday life
In May 2020, I was asked by the European Science-Media Hub of the European Parliament to participate in a short written interview about COVID-19 and digital technologies in…
Digitale Ethnografie in Corona-Zeiten II
Hier der zweite Teil der Blogserie deren Beiträge 5 studentische Feldforschungsprojekte zur Coronavirus Pandemie vorstellen. Der Zweite Teil dieser Serie stellt sich die Frage „Was passiert, wenn…
Digitale Ethnografie in Corona-Zeiten I
Sung- Joon Park Die Beiträge dieser Blogserie stellen 5 studentische Feldforschungsprojekte zur Coronavirus Pandemie vor. Dabei setzen sich die Projekte mit der grundsätzlichen Frage auseinander w…
The Two Singapores: From the Worker’s View by Wahid Al Mamun
“The Two Singapores” is an ongoing interview miniseries run by Somatosphere to interrogate Singapore’s COVID-19 response, in particular in its handling of the explosion of cases among migrant…
The Two Singapores: On The Ground (from Home) by Wahid Al Mamun
“The Two Singapores” is an ongoing interview miniseries run by Somatosphere to interrogate Singapore’s COVID-19 response, in particular in its handling of the explosion of cases among migrant…
Bioethical and Biopolitical Considerations Concerning Racism and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile
RAÚL VILLARROEL Given the great shockwaves caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which in recent months has shaken the whole world, there is cause to suspect that this…
The Two Singapores: Rethinking Migrant Domestic Care Work in COVID-19 by Wahid Al Mamun
“The Two Singapores” is an ongoing interview miniseries run by Somatosphere to interrogate Singapore’s COVID-19 response, in particular in its handling of the explosion of cases amo…