Emergency - Covid-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life

About the author

Claire Laurier Decoteau is professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her previous books include Ancestors and Antiretrovirals: The Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa and The Western Disease: Contesting Autism in the Somali Diaspora, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Laurier Decoteau, Decoteau Claire Laurier
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9780226836867
• ISBN: 978-0-226-83686-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Sociology & anthropology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Sociology and anthropology, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made), Human coronaviruses