Viral Loads : Anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19

Drawing upon the empirical scholarship and research expertise of contributors from all settled continents and from diverse life settings and economies, Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto people's lived realities in countries around the...

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Other Authors: Manderson, Lenore (Editor), Burke, Nancy J. (Editor), Wahlberg, Ayo (Editor)
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Published: London UCL Press 2021
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