Violence, Care, Cure: (Self)perceptions Within the Medical Encounter
If medicine is about stories (the patients’, doctors’, science’s, society’s), when and where do conflicts arise that turn the cure into something perceived as violence?
‘Great Leveler’? Covid-19’s Impact on Migration and Health Research
Thea de Gruchy et. al. discuss the implications of Covid-19 for migration and health research.
‘Arrival at Elsewhere’: Book Review
Gita Ralleigh reviews ‘Arrival at Elsewhere’, a book-length collaborative poem compiled from work written during the first few months of UK lockdown.
Behind the Masks: Mental Health, Marginalisation and COVID-19
Rebecca Walker and Jo Vearey discuss how COVID-19 is impacting mental health and existing inequalities in South Africa
Trusting touch during Covid-19
Performing Medicine’s Bella Eacott examines some of the norms around the use of touch in healthcare settings, and considers how these have been altered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Touch is central to healthcare practice:
Covid-19 and Public Mourning
Ryan Brown discusses the ways we have – and have not – publicly mourned those who have died from Covid-19
Filtering Noisy Advice during Lockdown
Alix Gallagher shares a 2021 lockdown experience, studying at home while filtering the noise from increasing amounts of advice.
Reading Banner’s Communicative Biocapitalism in the Time of Covid-19
What happens to the ‘patient’s voice’ when it participates in the creation of biocapital via digital health platforms? What is the significance of Olivia Banner’s concept of ‘communicative biocapitalism’ in the era of the Covid-19
COVID and its Metaphors
Francisca Bartilotti Matos discusses the metaphors we use to describe COVID-19 and the effect these metaphors have.
Postapocalyptic Peoples? Covid-19, Public Health, and Native Americans
In this post, Anna Kemball reflects on the framing of Native Americans as ‘postapocalyptic’ people in the context of Coronavirus. She discusses the missing public health data on Native American rates of Covid-19 amidst