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1 online resource |
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Bristol shorts research |
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Bristol shorts research.
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2022) |
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects
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Public health -- Social aspects
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Epidemics -- Social aspects
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COVID-19 -- epidemiology
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Socioeconomic Factors
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues.
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Economic aspects
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects
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Epidemics -- Social aspects
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Public health -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martin, Paul, editor
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| ISBN |
9781529223149 |
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1529223148 |
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9781529223132 |
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152922313X |
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