Counting the Dead in Nursing Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI:10.1215/08992363-10742453

Florence Jany-Catrice, Ilona Delouette, Amélie Lefebvre-Chombart, Laura Nirello

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Abstract

Abstract This article analyzes the genesis and consolidation of the “statistical argument” (Desrosières 2008) of mortality during the pandemic. Public health data are approached from the perspective of “biopower” which can be read as a statization of life, combining the power of both science and the state. The authors explore the social conditions of the production and dissemination of mortality data in French nursing homes in a period of strong uncertainty. The web of interactions between agencies of public health generates vagueness and uncertainty, but also weak and fragile data, in a period nevertheless marked by the centralization of power. The fragility of mortality data is mirrored by the fragility of the nursing home as institution—an expression of numerous fallibilities, in particular economic (lack of resources), symbolic (out-of-sight situations) and institutional (tension between health and social care).

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统计COVID-19大流行期间养老院的死亡人数

本文分析了大流行期间死亡率的“统计论据”(desrosi， 2008)的起源和巩固。公共卫生数据是从“生物权力”的角度来看待的，它可以被理解为一种生命的静态化，结合了科学和国家的力量。作者探讨的生产和死亡率数据的传播在法国养老院在一个时期的强烈不确定性的社会条件。在一个以权力集中为标志的时期，公共卫生机构之间的互动网络产生了模糊和不确定性，但也产生了薄弱和脆弱的数据。死亡率数据的脆弱性反映在养老院作为一个机构的脆弱性上——它表达了许多不可靠之处，尤其是经济上的(缺乏资源)、象征上的(视线之外的情况)和制度上的(健康和社会护理之间的紧张关系)。

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2.10

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6.70%

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