Very, very mild: Covid-19 symptoms and illness classification

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‘[A] large portion won’t notice that they have it’. ‘Another substantial portion will have very, very mild symptoms’. ‘A small portion will have a very significant reaction’. So runs UK’s Home Officer Deputy Science Advisor Rupert Shute’s assessment, in April 2020, of what the 80% of the UK public he says are predicted to get Covid-19 will experience (Ahmed, 2020).…

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November 3, 2014

Entangled in the collaborative turn: observations from the field

By Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard

This article is part of the series: The collaborative turn: interdisciplinarity across the human sciences

If there really has been a ‘collaborative turn’ between the social and biological sciences, then the stakes of that turn are still very much to be negotiated. ‘Collaboration,’ of course, is not a practice or a structure simply to be aimed for: like all ethical and methodological commitments, collaboration is made in the turning – and thus the actual forms …

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Very, very mild: Covid-19 symptoms and illness classification

Entangled in the collaborative turn: observations from the field