Open AccessPandemic … or syndemic ? Re‐framing COVID‐19 disease burden and ‘underlying health conditions’
Author(s) -
Irons Rebecca
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
social anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.452
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1469-8676
pISSN - 0964-0282
DOI - 10.1111/1469-8676.12886
Subject(s) - syndemic , pandemic , covid-19 , framing (construction) , environmental health , disease , medicine , virology , geography , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , archaeology
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (2020) 28, 2 286–287. © 2020 The Author. Social Anthropology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Social Anthropologists. and local responses to accelerated modernity, to the voluminous literature on climate change and options for systemic change. An overheated world has been forced to slow down. What can the long‐term consequences be? Or rather: How can alternative values and societal models be strengthened as a result of the enforced cooling down?