Viral Cultures
The two pandemics the Viral Cultures epilogue discusses
AIDS and COVID-19
COVID increased...
Anti-Chinese racism
Approach to research that puts embodied experiences of women first
Feminist new materialist approach
Participant Katrina mainly sought health information from...
The people who the 'before-times' were good for
White people
'Yellow Peril'
Anti-Chinese racism that depicts Chinese people as dirty, unhygienic, and embodying disease
Who does this framework center in research?
The human subject
For who are digital health resources (social media, health articles, online testing materials) more valuable than doctors?
Those who are not university educated and/or have lower paying jobs
Who does COVID-19 and AIDS disproportionately affect?
Minoritized communities
Why were white people, as a race, not blamed for swine flu?
Racist disease blame
Site for resistance in digital health
self-diagnosis
This participant relied on self-diagnosis for her condition up until a year before the study was conducted
Megan
The problem with AIDS archives as they exist right now
They do not honour BIPOC and queer methods of information gathering
Fear of violence or racialized retaliation for wearing a particular piece of disease protection
maskaphobia
Feminist new materialist information gathering style
Lengthy, face-to-face discussions. Free flowing discussion style
Doctors are unfamiliar with and misunderstand this condition
Lipedema, because it primarily affects women
It can be reductive and problematic to view AIDS and COVID as similar diseases because...
COVID was viewed as an equal opportunity disease, while AIDS was viewed as something that targeted an outcast social group
Identity reconstruction
Chinese people trivializing racism to blend into white culture, gives the illusion of being adjacent to whiteness
The approach focuses on...
Exploring the connections between humans and technology
This type of digital technology is not identified as being helpful for those with chronic illness