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Scientific intimacy : The changing relationship with medical data at the time of covid-19 pandemic

Drążkiewicz, Elżbieta LU orcid (2020) In Anthropology in Action 27(3). p.71-77
Abstract

As the coronavirus started to spread in Ireland, the epidemiological data became the most sought-after information in the country. This article will examine the ways in which COVID-19 redefined the intimacies of the relationships that health professionals and the members of the public have with medical data. It will focus on Irish examples and explore how the context of the pandemic turned numbers from abstract cognitive tools into important and affective tenets of social lives that dictated the moral values and conditions of sociality. It will examine the role of enumeration and metrics in mediating new forms of intimacy with state and society.

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keywords
Commensuration, COVID-19, Enumeration, Health protection, Health surveillance, Intimacy, Ireland, Medical data, epidemiology
in
Anthropology in Action
volume
27
issue
3
pages
7 pages
publisher
Berghahn Journals
external identifiers
  • scopus:85097560310
ISSN
0967-201X
DOI
10.3167/aia.2020.270315
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English
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no
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Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s).
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