The ventilator and the vaccine: Necropolitics and fat in the Covid-19 pandemic

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the fat body was caught up in complicated logics of life and death in the North American context, where “obesity” was regarded as an “underlying condition” for greater risk of severe disease and death from Covid. As such, bodies with high Body Mass Indexes (BMIs) were...

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Main Author: Deborah McPhail
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Critical Public Health Network 2024-03-01
Series:Journal of Critical Public Health
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Online Access:https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph/article/view/77900
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