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MY COVID‐19 DIARY
Author(s) -
Munyikwa Michelle
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8322.12575
Subject(s) - covid-19 , ambivalence , grief , pandemic , dual (grammatical number) , sociology , psychoanalysis , history , psychology , aesthetics , art , medicine , literature , psychiatry , virology , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Written in weekly instalments, Michelle Munyikwa's Covid‐19 diary reflects upon the experience of an unfolding pandemic from her dual role as a medical trainee and anthropologist living in the United States. Her observations centre on everyday encounters with scenes or objects that reflect the growing crisis, from the absence of masks outside patient rooms to emergent forms of care through telemedicine. The diary follows the author as she experiences grief, ambivalence and disorientation in the first weeks of the pandemic.