TY - JOUR
AU - Bevan, Imogen
AU - Bauld, Linda
AU - Street, Alice
PY - 2024
DA - May
TI - Who we test for: Aligning relational and public health responsibilities in COVID-19 testing in Scotland
JO - Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
EP - 294
VL - 43
IS - 4
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2024.2349514
AB - 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.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/958521f0-360f-4f65-a9f2-20dd5225f1d5
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER