Main description:

Cutting across disciplines from science and technology studies to the arts and humanities, this thought-provoking collection engages with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and knowledge in the context of COVID-19.
The authors use the crisis as a lens to explore the contours of contemporary societies and lay bare the ways in which orthodox conceptions of the human condition can benefit a privileged few.
Highlighting the lived experiences of marginalized groups from around the world, this is a boundary-spanning critical intervention to ongoing debates about the pandemic. It presents new ways of thinking in public policy, culture and the economy, and points the way forward to a more equitable and inclusive human future.
Chapter 12 is available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Contents:

Introduction - Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard and Warren Pearce
Part 1: Knowing Humans
1. Making Models into Public Objects - Rokia Ballo and Warren Pearce
2. Pandemics, Metaphors and What It Means to Be Human - Brigitte Nerlich
3. The Role of Everyday Visuals in 'Knowing Humans' During COVID-19 - Camilla Mork Rostvik, Helen Kennedy, Giorgia Aiello and C.W. Anderson
4. Humans, COVID-19 and Platform Societies - Stefania Vicari and Zheng Yang
5. Managing Pandemic Risk in an Interconnected World: What Planning a Wedding Shows about Early Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak - Carlos Cuevas-Garcia
Part 2: Marginalized Humans
6. Imperilled Humanities: Locked Down, Locked In and Lockdown Politics During the Pandemic - Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole
7. "Why Would I Go to Hospital if It's Not Going to Try and Save Me?": Disabled Young People's Experiences of the COVID-19 Crisis - Kirsty Liddiard, Katherine Runswick-Cole, Dan Goodley and the Co-Researcher Collective: Ruth Spurr, Sally Whitney, Emma Vogelmann, Lucy Watts MBE and Katy Evans
8. Science Advice for COVID-19 and Marginalized Communities in India - Poonam Pandey and Aviram Sharma
9. Pandemic: Satire and Human Hierarchies - Tanya Titchkosky
Part 3: Biosocial Humans
10. Genomic Medicine and the Remaking of Human Health - Paul Martin
11. Frailty and the Value of a Human in COVID-19 Times - Dawn Goodwin, Cliff Shelton and Kate Weiner
12. "I've Got People's Spit All over Me!": Reflections on the Future of Life-Saving Stem Cell Donor Recruitment - Ros Williams
13. Science Told Me (But I Couldn't See Its Point) - Rod Michalko
Part 4: Human Futures
14: Where Will an Emerging Post-COVID-19 Future Position the Human? - Keren Naa Abeka Arthur, Effie Amanatidou, Stevienna de Saille, Timothy Birabi and Poonam Pandey
15. (Genome) Editing Future Societies - Michael Morrison
16. Inclusive Education in the Post-COVID-19 World - Anna Pilson
17. From TINA to TAMA: Social Futures and Democratic Dreaming in the Ruins of Capitalist Realism - Paul Graham Raven
Conclusion: Thinking about 'the Human' during COVID-19 Times - Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard and Warren Pearce