Interweaving an Epidemic World: Fragments of an Ethnography of Primary Health Care in the era of the COVID-19 Pandemic Cover Image

Splatać epidemiczny świat: fragmenty etnografii podstawowej opieki zdrowotnej w dobie pandemii COVID-19
Interweaving an Epidemic World: Fragments of an Ethnography of Primary Health Care in the era of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author(s): Hubert Wierciński
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Health and medicine and law, Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: primary care; COVID-19; medical anthropology; biomedical culture; risk;

Summary/Abstract: In the article I analyse the responses of Polish primary care practitioners to coronavirus pandemic. I argue that the doctors by – employing their skills and knowledge – ad hoc started to reconstruct their professional world heavily influenced by the virus. I employ a body of literature focused on risk-taking, risk society, and second modernity to shed more light on doctors` practices, who entered a risky, yet intellectually and professionally refreshing interplay with the threads brought to them by the virus.

  • Issue Year: 49/2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 201-217
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish