Long Covid: an anthropology of scientific research on chronic illness
Cori Hayden, Professor
Anthropology
Applications for Spring 2025 are closed for this project.
This project is a study of emergent and contested paradigms for understanding post-viral chronic illness. It has a historical dimension, a social theory dimension, and an anthro/science studies component. It focuses on how the proponents of competing paradigms are participating in a complicated public performance of power, legitimacy, and gatekeeping authority around funding, treatment, and the state management of mass disability.
Role: 1) Library and journal-based research on both scientific publications and in STS, medical anthropology, and the anthropology of science
2) Network and citation analyses
3) Organization of project resources
Qualifications: Required:
a) the student should be comfortable exploring both scientific articles and social science/theoretical writing
b)the student should be organized and show initiative
c) the student should be willing to try out and work with different web-based options for organizing project-wide resources
Hours: 3-5 hrs
Social Sciences Biological & Health Sciences