In this opinion piece, I argue that a sociology and anthropology of cure is accelerated by
various features of the scientific and social responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. I illustrate …

The COVID-19 pandemic has inversed certainties of absolutes of cure in everyday life but
paradoxically this has occurred during a time when novel scientific advancements seem to …

In different ways and for different reasons, a sense that the COVID-19 pandemic has
changed everything has come to dominate public, personal, and intellectual life. The …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions for visitors and caregivers in healthcare settings
and long-term care (LTC) facilities were enacted in the larger context of public health …

This article examines the global response to the Covid‐19 pandemic. It argues that we
urgently need to look beyond the virus if we want to understand the real seriousness of what …

First published in 2004 and updated in 2013, the previous editions of Key Concepts in
Medical Sociology were hugely successful. They proved popular among students of …

it is rare that social theory can save lives, but the conceptual framework through which viral
pandemics are largely understood costs lives by failing to include key insights based in …

COVID‐19 has the capacity to take our breath away, the very essence of what is necessary
to sustain life. So too might the response to COVID‐19 be seen as breathtaking. Besides the …

COVID-19 was a stark reminder that understanding a novel pathogen is essential but
insufficient to protect us from disease. Biomedical and technical solutions are necessary, but …

This note was written on 1st April–April Fool's Day-2020 when we all vehemently wished
that the global COVID-19 pandemic could be forgotten as a bad joke. I put the date because …