What’s in a name? Applying the syndemic perspective to Covid-19 in Ireland

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20386176
AutoresChris Ó Rálaigh (0000-0002-0618-1039, Technological University Dublin, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen29
Número2
Páginas241-247
Fecha de publicación2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIrish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0791-6035 • E-ISSN: 2050-5280
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/07916035211009147
OpenAlexW3155646415
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas18

The term pandemic, pro-offers a vision of COVID-19 abstracted from its social, economic, and political context, suggesting a socially neutral phenomena framed within a medicalised discourse. An etymological and theoretical re-conceptualisation of COVID-19 as a syndemic re-situates the virus within these contexts, allowing an interrogation of the oft-stated claim, discussed in this journal (Nolan, 2020) that ‘we are all in this together’ and a deeper analysis of the viruses impact on particular social groupings. Several recent articles have posited that the syndemic label applies to COVID-19 at an international level (Bambra et al., 2020; Hill et al., 2020; Horton, 2020) and a national level (Katzymarzyk et al., 2020; Shrinivasin et al., 2020). This essay examines the emerging evidence to assess whether the syndemic label applies in Ireland

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Criminology · Media studies · Sociology · Syndemic · Computer Science · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Artificial Intelligence · Virology