A pandemic of metrics
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences University of California San Francisco San Francisco California USA, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Radiology and Medicine New York University College of Dentistry New York 10010, Department of Global Helath and Social Medicine School of Global Affairs, King's College London London UK, Department of Global Health and Development London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London UK |
| ANO | 2024 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
| ISSN | 0745-5194 |
| E-ISSN | 1548-1387 |
| EDITORA | Berghahn Journals (United Kingdom) |
| DOI | 10.1111/maq.12842 |
| CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
The COVID‐19 pandemic prompted critical attention to the performative power of metrics. We suggest that the existential capacities of metrics as a means of pandemic living warrant further consideration. We describe how the COVID‐19 pandemic that came into existence as a public health and political event could only have occurred because of the anticipatory metrical practices that were used to transform SARS‐COV‐2 into a matter of global health concern. By exploring the affective potencies of COVID‐19 metrics we show their abilities to engage the public in ways that cannot be contained; in detailing the narrative arcs created through metrics we show their opportunities, misdirections, and erasures. A pandemic way of life persists: a pandemic of metrics.
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