"I Think I Have Enough for Now": Living with COVID-19 Antibodies in the Philippines

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Lasco, Gideon
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• الموضوعات: COVID-19 pandemic; epidemics; antibodies; medical anthropology; Anthropology; Epidemiology; Medicine and Health Sciences; Other Anthropology; Public Health; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social and Cultural Anthropology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/132; https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2022.2089569

Drawing on face-to-face and virtual fieldwork in the Philippines, I document the emergence of antibody testing as a popular practice among Filipinos during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping them make decisions about vaccines and other life choices. Antibodies gave people a sense of agency and control a...