{"id":2282,"date":"2020-06-16T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/husscovid.micheldurinx.opalstacked.com\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2020-06-16T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T10:39:00","slug":"situating-the-biology-of-covid-19-a-conversation-on-disease-and-democracy-sabina-leonelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/covidsociety\/2020\/06\/16\/situating-the-biology-of-covid-19-a-conversation-on-disease-and-democracy-sabina-leonelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Situating the biology of COVID-19: A Conversation on Disease and Democracy  (Sabina Leonelli)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By <a href=\"mailto:s.leonelli@exeter.ac.uk\">Sabina Leonelli<\/a> with\u00a0Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Thomas Cousin and Michelle Pentecost<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018Struggles for a more just, fair, inclusive, or caring politics in the time of Covid-19, need to be grounded in the everyday work of building institutions, supporting the vulnerable amongst us, and cultivating a deeper ethic of mutuality.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What have been the epidemiological and political responses to Covid-19, and what have been their implications for democracy? Four diasporic scholars, living and working in three continents examine, in a comparative perspective, how the pandemic has revealed relationships between disease, technocracy and governmental accountability, and argue for community-driven approaches rather than authoritarian interventions.<\/p>\n<p>These themes are also central to a topical collection I am editing for the journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/journal\/40656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HPLS<\/a>), \u201cBiomedical knowledge at a time of crisis: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on COVID-19\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkbox\">Full article:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindiaforum.in\/article\/situating-biology-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.theindiaforum.in\/article\/situating-biology-covid-19<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sabina Leonelli with\u00a0Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Thomas Cousin and Michelle Pentecost \u2018Struggles for a more just, fair, inclusive, or caring politics in the time of Covid-19, need to be grounded in the everyday work of building institutions, supporting the vulnerable amongst us, and cultivating a deeper ethic of mutuality.\u2019 What have been the epidemiological and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[87,117,405],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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