Covid-19: the humanities and social sciences have much to contribute to beating this pandemic and the next

Green, Stephen T; Cladi, Lorenzo

doi:10.1136/bmj.m3523

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“…Last but not least, we argue that the medical humanities have much gain from directing their attention to individual health issues, and to health or illness situations that are experienced at a collective level, thus harnessing the previously mentioned emphasis on societal relationships in the humanities and social sciences (Green and Cladi 2020;Pickersgill and Smith 2021). The analysis of patient experiences through a collective lens such as the solidarity approach offers unique insights to understandings of the individual self and the collective community in a way that sheds light on health and social inequalities.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…highlighted the fact that societies are built on social relationships at different levels, and that we need to understand these relationships in order to inform policy and healthcare practice (Green and Cladi 2020;Pickersgill and Smith 2021). In our research, we build on the idea that one cannot aim to resolve complex problems or improve healthcare practice without understanding what patients and individual members of society experience.…”

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Solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe

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Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people’s lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the intersection of philosophy, bioethics, social sciences and policy studies, this article explores how the practice-based understanding of solidarity formulated by Prainsack and Buyx helps shed light on these questions. Drawing on 643 qualitative interviews carried out in two phases (April–May 2020 and October 2020) in nine European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, German-speaking Switzerland and the UK), the data show that interpersonal acts of solidarity are important, but that they are not sustainable without consistent support at the institutional level. As the pandemic progressed, respondents expressed a longing for more institutionalised forms of solidarity. We argue that the medical humanities have much to gain from directing their attention to individual health issues, and to collective experiences of health or illness. The analysis of experiences through a collective lens such as solidarity offers unique insights to understandings of the individual and the collective. We propose three essential advances for research in the medical humanities that can help uncover collective experiences of disease and health crises: (1) an empirical and practice-oriented approach alongside more normative approaches; (2) the confidence to make recommendations for practice and policymaking and (3) the pursuit of cross-national and multidisciplinary research collaborations.

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Solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe

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“…This polarization may well be exacerbated by naïve expectations about the science‐policy relationship, suggesting that this too needs examination within the human–animal–coronavirus context (e.g. Green & Cladi, 2020). Precisely because of such assumptions about the relationship between knowledge and action, El‐Taliawi and Hartley (2021) argue for understanding what they term ‘populist anti‐science’ as a specific manifestation of broader epistemic instability: i.e.…”

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“…So far, literature addressing policy issues around wildlife and SARS‐CoV‐2 indicates three orientations: (i) Calls for improved disease surveillance (e.g. Watsa, 2020; Green & Cladi, 2020; Larkin, 2022) (ii) calls for broad ecosystem protections and bans on wildlife trade (e.g. Dobson et al, 2020; Ribeiro, Bingre, Strubbe, & Reino, 2020); and (iii) critiques of wildlife trade bans as simplistic approaches with potential for further harm (e.g.…”

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Understanding and strengthening wildlife and zoonotic disease policy processes: A research imperative

Clark

Antwi-Boasiako

Brook

et al. 2022

Zoonoses and Public Health

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The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the urgency and importance of monitoring, managing and addressing zoonotic diseases, and the acute challenges of doing so with sufficient inter-jurisdictional coordination in a dynamic global context. Although wildlife pathogens are well-studied clinically and ecologically, there is very little systematic scholarship on their management or on policy implications. The current global pandemic therefore presents a unique social science research imperative: to understand how decisions are made about preventing and responding to wildlife diseases, especially zoonoses, and how those policy processes can be improved as part of early warning systems, preparedness and rapid response. To meet these challenges, we recommend intensified research efforts towards: (i) generating functional insights about wildlife and zoonotic disease policy processes, (ii) enabling social and organizational learning to mobilize those insights, (iii) understanding epistemic instability to address populist anti-science and (iv) anticipating evolving and new zoonotic emergences, especially their human dimensions. Since policy processes for zoonoses can be acutely challenged during the early stages of an epidemic or pandemic, such insights can provide a pragmatic, empirically-based roadmap for enhancing their robustness and efficacy, and benefiting long-term decision-making efforts.

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“…The sars-cov-2 (COVID-19) outbreak has mobilized research on various disciplines, including life sciences and humanities (Green & Cladi, 2020;Riccaboni & Verginer, 2022;Yu et al, 2022). Despite the domination of publications on health and technology, research on society and humanities is of the same importance since the disruption in educational, religious, and cultural activities has driven personal, social, and political attitudes (Pickersgill & Smith, 2021).…”

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Teaching English During the Pandemic: Bibliometric Analysis

Isti'anah,

Wijanarka

2023

LLT Journal

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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to massive publications indexed in various databases, which provide platforms for research communities, including teachers and researchers, to disseminate their experiences during the pandemic. This paper employed bibliometric analysis to investigate the keywords “teaching English in the pandemic” in the Scopus database to determine how the research is produced. This research used Vos Viewer to analyze the co-authorship and co-occurrences of the keywords from the bibliographic information downloaded from the Scopus database by limiting its search to 2020-2022 under the scope of social sciences and humanities. From the 444 documents eligible for the review, this paper indicates two main points: (1) the co-authorship of research publication has been equally distributed and produced through collaboration despite ample opportunities for joint research among organizations, and (2) the co-occurrences of the keywords show three major research trends during the COVID-19 pandemic: pedagogical best practices, pedagogical experience, and pedagogical strategies. This paper exemplifies how knowledge and publications are generated within a certain field, enabling the research community to foster collaboration and produce articles that incorporate pertinent keywords currently under discussion.

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Covid-19: the humanities and social sciences have much to contribute to beating this pandemic and the next

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

Solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe

Solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe

Understanding and strengthening wildlife and zoonotic disease policy processes: A research imperative

Teaching English During the Pandemic: Bibliometric Analysis

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