COVID-19 has been called “a disaster for feminism” (Lewis in The coronavirus is a disaster for feminism, 2020) for numerous reasons. In this short piece, we make sense of this claim, drawing on intersectional feminism(s) to understand why an analysis that considers gender alone is inadequate to address both the risks and consequences of COVID-19.
Crip/STS Convergences In Transplantation Technologies: Critical Methods For The Curative Imaginary Suze Berkhout, University of Toronto; Kelly Fritsch, Carleton University Often considered a pinnacle of medical technoscience, solid organ transplantation and related interventional devices (ventricular assist devices, VADs; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ECMO) are described and hoped for as a new and improved state that achieves …
Check out some of our work on the Lessons from the Nocebo Effect as the 2021 Graphic Medicine Un-convention! Here’s the full “Lessons from the Nocebo Effect” Animation. Get in touch if you’d like to use it in your own teaching:
