Pharmaceutical Messianism and the Politics of Covid-19 in the United States

• Main Authors: Lasco, Gideon, Yu, Vincen Gregory, Bharti, Nishtha
• 格式: text
• 出版: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• 主題: COVID-19; medical populism; pandemics; pharmaceutical anthropology; Pharmaceutical messianism; politics of health; Anthropology; Medicine and Health Sciences; Public Health
• 在線閱讀: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/149; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/article/1149/viewcontent/Pharmaceutical_messianism_and_the_politics_of_COVID_19_in_the_United_States.pdf

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials in the United States–from the President to governors, mayors, lawmakers, and even school district commissioners–touted unproven treatments for COVID-19 alongside, and sometimes as opposed to, mask and vaccine mandates. Utilising the framework of ‘ph...