Tagged: medical discourse
By Gautam Liu. The COVID-19 pandemic in India generated a strange phenomenon in how health workers were perceived. On the one hand officials were not tired in proclaiming doctors and nurses as gods, on the other hand health workers were ostracized by large parts of the general population.
By Johan Strijdom If the Coronavirus pandemic has rendered visible the unequal vulnerability to the virus across distinctions of class, gender, age and race, it is the vulnerability of the...
By Birgit Meyer In my previous blog I introduced our new “Dossier Corona.” Pondering the accounts so far posted on this site and following news about how the relation between...
By Birgit Meyer These are trying times, in which we struggle to cope with the devastating and scary omnipresence of the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19. Invisible to the naked...