Contents

pp iii-v

List of Figures and Table

pp vi-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-xii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Knowing Humans

pp 11-12

one - Making Models into Public Objects

pp 13-19

two - Pandemics, Metaphors and What It Means to Be Human

pp 20-27

three - The Role of Everyday Visuals in ‘Knowing Humans’ During COVID-19

pp 28-35

four - Humans, COVID-19 and Platform Societies

pp 36-43

five - Managing Pandemic Risk in an Interconnected World: What Planning a Wedding Shows about Early Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak

pp 44-50

Part II - Marginalized Humans

pp 51-52

six - Imperilled Humanities: Locked Down, Locked In and Lockdown Politics During the Pandemic

pp 53-59

seven - “Why Would I Go to Hospital if It’s Not Going to Try and Save Me?”: Disabled Young People’s Experiences of the COVID-19 Crisis

pp 60-66

eight - Science Advice for COVID-19 and Marginalized Communities in India

pp 67-74

nine - Pandemic Satire and Human Hierarchies

pp 75-82

Part III - Biosocial Humans

pp 83-84

ten - Genomic Medicine and the Remaking of Human Health

pp 85-91

eleven - Frailty and the Value of a Human in COVID-19 Times

pp 92-99

twelve - ‘I’ve Got People’s Spit All over Me!’: Reflections on the Future of Life-SavingStem Cell Donor Recruitment

pp 100-107

thirteen - Science Told Me (But I Couldn’t See Its Point)

pp 108-114

Part IV - Human Futures

pp 115-116

fourteen - Where Will an Emerging Post-COVID-19 Future Position the Human?

pp 117-123

fifteen - (Genome) Editing Future Societies

pp 124-131

sixteen - Inclusive Education in the Post-COVID-19 World

pp 132-139

seventeen - From TINA to TAMA: Social Futures and Democratic Dreaming in the Ruins of Capitalist Realism

pp 140-146

Conclusion: Thinking about ‘the Human’ during COVID-19 Times - Conclusion

pp 147-155

Index

pp 156-163