Let's Get Back to Normal? COVID-19 and the Logic of Cure

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dc.contributor.authorBerghs, Maria
dc.date.acceptance2022-03-17
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-03T10:15:51Z
dc.date.available2022-05-03T10:15:51Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-12
dc.descriptionopen access articleen
dc.description.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has inversed certainties of absolutes of cure in everyday life but paradoxically this has occurred during a time when novel scientific advancements seem to herald a new frontier of cures for rare diseases, chronic conditions, disabilities and viruses that were previously incurable. In this paper, I illustrate the development of a logic of cure by first of all noting a lacuna in the medical sociological and anthropological literature, where although a lot of empirical research and theoretical work to understand cure has been undertaken, there has been no sociology or anthropology of cure. Using three case studies, I examine what they reveal about the logic of cure. Firstly, I argue that there is a development of a bioethics of cure in reactions of disability community and disabled people to care as cure during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second case-study focuses on understanding limitations of vaccines and how people react against such indeterminancies of loss of absolutes of cure. Lastly, the final case study describes how while there are cures, for example, for rare genetic conditions, they are often initially curated with long-term cost-benefit analysis for the Global North. In conclusion, it is found that many of the developments within sociology and anthropology are missing from a logic of cure and that a new theory of cure has to develop.en
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dc.identifier.citationBerghs, M. (2022) Let's Get Back to Normal? COVID-19 and the Logic of Cure. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, 782582.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.782582
dc.identifier.issn2297-7775
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/21855
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidVC2020en
dc.publisherFrontiers in Sociologyen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute for Allied Health Sciences Researchen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectCureen
dc.subjectpandemicen
dc.subjectsociologyen
dc.subjectanthropologyen
dc.titleLet's Get Back to Normal? COVID-19 and the Logic of Cureen
dc.typeArticleen

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