Exploring Society with COVID-19
Exploring Society with COVID-19
By Angela Cassidy There are many parallels between the UK’s response to the arrival of COVID-19 in recent months and its much longer policy history of grappling with bovine tuberculosis. In particular, both situations expose a critical problem underlying many controversies drawing in science, policy and wider publics—the idea of “The Big Book of Science.” […]
By Angela Cassidy The past decade has seen an explosion in the availability and uptake of new technologies enabling the rapid testing, diagnosis and detection of organisms in and beyond the laboratory. At times taking the form of relatively cheap, easily operated and highly transportable devices, these technologies draw on wider developments across the biomedical […]
By Angela Cassidy and Karen Bickerstaff In the UK, air pollution has been repeatedly invoked in debate around the COVID-19 pandemic: during a time of suddenly reduced mobility, heavily polluted city air has cleared, making visible a previously invisible problem; links are also being drawn between exposure to air pollution, inequality and poor outcomes from […]
By Angela Cassidy As humanity meets, identifies and struggles to understand the SARS-CoV-2 virus, scientific and societal understandings of the disease it causes (COVID-19) are rapidly changing. Scientific research, clinical treatments, policy/politics, and wider social representations of this completely new disease are already being framed in terms of several diseases we already know, including viral […]
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