Knowing COVID-19 demonstrates how researchers in the humanities shone a light on some of the many hidden problems of COVID-19, in the very depths of the pandemic crisis. Drawing on eight COVID-19 research projects, the volume shows how humanities researchers, alongside colleagues in the clinical and life sciences, addressed some of the major critical unknowns about this new infectious disease – from the effects of racism to the risks of deploying shame; from how to design an effective instructional leaflet to how to communicate effectively to bus passengers. Across eight novel case studies, the book showcases how humanities research during a pandemic is not only about interpreting the crisis when it has safely passed, but how it can play a vital, collaborative and instrumental role as events are still unfolding.
Edited by:
Des Fitzgerald,
Fred Cooper
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781526178640
ISBN 10: 1526178648
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 28 August 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Introduction - Knowing COVID-19: The pandemic and beyond - Fred Cooper and Des Fitzgerald 1 Pandemic imaginaries of interspecies relatedness: More-than-human microbial methods on the bus - Charlotte Veal, Paul Hurley, Emma Roe and Sandra Wilks 2 Deafblindness, touch and COVID-19 - Azadeh Emadi 3 Testing, testing – what about the instructions? - Sue Walker, Josefina Bravo and Al Edwards 4 Home and neighbourhood: pandemic geographies of dwelling and belonging - Alison Blunt, Kathy Burrell, Georgina Endfield, Miri Lawrence, Eithne Nightingale, Alastair Owens, Jacqueline Waldock and Annabelle Wilkins 5 Crisis and engagement: the emotional toll of museum work during the COVID-19 pandemic - Elizabeth Crooke and David Farrell-Banks 6 Storying older women’s immobilities and gender-based violence in the COVID-19 pandemic - Lesley Murray, Amanda Holt and Jessica Moriarty 7 Empowering obstinate memory – the experiences of Black, Asian and Migrant Nurses before, during and after the pandemic - Anandi Ramamurthy and Ken Fero 8 The shameful dead: vaccine hesitancy, shame and necropolitics during COVID-19 - Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal and Arthur Rose Index -- .
Fred Cooper is Research Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter Des Fitzgerald is Professor of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences at University College Cork -- .
