Who We Test For: Aligning Relational and Public Health Responsibilities in COVID-19 Testing in Scotland.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Epub Date: 2024-05-07 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2349514

Imogen Bevan, Linda Bauld, Alice Street

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Abstract

COVID-19 testing programs in the UK often called on people to test to "protect others." In this article we explore motivations to test and the relationships to "others" involved in an asymptomatic testing program at a Scottish university. We show that participants engaged with testing as a relational technology, through which they navigated multiple overlapping responsibilities to kin, colleagues, flatmates, strangers, and to more diffuse publics. We argue that the success of testing as a technique of governance depends not only on the production of disciplined selves, but also on the program's capacity to align interpersonal and public scales of responsibility.

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我们为谁检测？调整苏格兰 COVID-19 检测中的关系责任和公共卫生责任。

英国的 COVID-19 检测项目经常呼吁人们进行检测以 "保护他人"。在本文中，我们探讨了参与苏格兰一所大学无症状检测项目的检测动机以及与 "他人 "的关系。我们的研究表明，参与者将检测作为一种关系技术，通过这种技术，他们处理了对亲属、同事、室友、陌生人以及更分散的公众的多重责任。我们认为，作为一种管理技术，检测的成功不仅取决于规范自我的产生，还取决于该计划调整人际和公共责任尺度的能力。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.