Viral loads : anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19 / edited by Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke and Ayo Wahlberg.

London : UCL Press, 2021.

xxii, 466 pages : black and whtite illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: Stratified Livability and Pandemic Effects -- Part I: The Power of the State -- 2. Care in the Time of COVID-19: Surveillance, Creativity and Sociolismo in Cuba -- 3. Militarising the Pandemic: Lockdown in South Africa -- 4. Rights, Responsibilities and Revelations: COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and the State -- Part II: Exclusion and Blame -- 5. The 2020 Los Angeles Uprisings: Fighting for Black Lives in the Midst of COVID-19 -- 6. The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in the UK: Racism, Nationalism and the Afterlife of Colonialism -- 7. The Shroud Stealers: Coronavirus and the Viral Vagility of Prejudice -- 8. Unprecedented Times? Romanian Roma and Discrimination During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 9. Turkey's Diyanet and Political Islam During the Pandemic -- 10. Citizen Vector: Scapegoating within Communal Boundaries in Senegal During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Part III: Unequal Burdens -- 11. Pandemic Policy Responses and Embodied Realities Among 'Waste-Pickers' in India -- 12. The Amplification Effect: Impacts of COVID-19 on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Indonesia -- 13. Vulnerabilities within and Beyond the Pandemic: Disability in COVID-19 Brazil -- 14. 'You are Putting My Health at Risk': Genes, Diets and Bioethics Under COVID-19 in Mexico -- 15. Scarcity and Resilience in the Slums of Dhaka City, Bangladesh -- Part IV: The reach of care -- 16. Making Do: COVID-19 and the Improvisation of Care in the UK and US -- 17. Carescapes Unsettled: COVID-19 and the Reworking of 'Stable Illnesses' in Welfare State Denmark -- 18. Care within or Out of Reach: Fantasies of Care and Connectivity in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 19. Pandemic Times in a WhatsApp-ed Nation: Gender Ideologies in India During COVID-19 -- 20. Purity's Dangers: At the Interstices of Religion and Public Health in Israel -- Part V: Lessons for a Future -- 21. Fracturing the Pandemic: The Logic of Separation and Infectious Disease in Tanzania -- 22. Living Together in Precarious Times: COVID-19 in the Philippines -- 23. COVID-19 in Italy: A New Culture of Healthcare for Future Preparedness.