Institutional Responsibility is Prior to Personal Responsibility in a Pandemic

Davies, Ben; Savulescu, Julian

doi:10.1007/s10790-021-09876-0

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“…Also, the Norwegian prime minister was blamed for this (Bergh and Karlsen, 2022); when her husband hosted a restaurant birthday party for her, inviting family and friends, she was fined. More often, ex post responsibility is considered in analyses of failures and successes, whereby institutions accumulate knowledge and prepare for future decisions: 'Institutions must acknowledge negative retrospective responsibility rather than attempting to hide it' was Davies and Savulescu's (2022: 3) reaction to how the British governments handled the pandemic. To prevent backward-looking accusers, and to gain trust, the Norwegian government acted responsibly by being open about the uncertainties of the measures applied during the outbreaks (Christensen and Laegreid, 2020).…”

Section: Responsibility and Responsible Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19?

Heimtun

Viken

2023

Tourist Studies

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COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness. We explore how, during the pandemic, Norwegian tourists dealt with infection preventive measures, how they changed travel habits and how the pandemic transformed their thinking on tourism and climate change. The tourists were loyal citizens adhering to the authorities’ measures and refrained from international holidays, thereby taking responsibility for the governmentally enforced dugnad (collective efforts). This temporal change in travel habits, however, was not expected to become the new normal, as warmer, southern destinations were still desired. Culturally embedded neoliberal values of freedom of movement were, for most of these tourists, stronger than the threat of climate crisis. Fatalistically, we conclude that COVID-19 did not have the power to transform their mind-sets regarding responsible tourism futures and free them from neoliberal shackles.

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Section: Responsibility and Responsible Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Responsible tourists in the time of Covid-19?

Heimtun

Viken

2023

Tourist Studies

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“…Evolving from individual narrative postings to collective narrative drama, long Covid communities challenged the prevailing model of Covid-19 as a short-lived respiratory illness which invariably delivers a classic triad of symptoms; undertook and published peer-reviewed research to substantiate its diverse and protracted manifestations; and gained positions as experts by experience on guideline development groups and policy taskforces. (Rushforth et al 2021, 1) Scholars have stressed the unconvincing and unhelpful emphasis on individuality and individual choices in the face of the pandemic (Ahmed and Jackson 2021;Davies and Savulescu 2022;Lewis 2021;Schermuly, Petersen, and Anderson 2021). This emphasis on individuality has shifted attention away from systemic inequalities and larger power struggles-a feature/rhetoric effect also shared by Western outbreak narratives in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.…”

Section: Transmediality: Linking Sharing Scaling Framingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Postdigital health practices: new directions in medical humanities

Pietrzak-Franger

2023

Med Humanities

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Digitalisation has changed the way we understand and practice health. The recent pandemic has accelerated some of the developments in digital health and brought about modifications in public access to information. Taking this into consideration, this programmatic paper sets the stage for and conceptualises postdigital health practices as a possible field of inquiry within medical humanities. While delineating some central aspects of said practices, I draw attention to their significance in contemporary strategies of knowledge production. Spotlighting online environments as the point of ingress for the analysis of these practices, I propose three possible foci of critical and methodological engagement. By spotlighting the serialisation, multimodality, and transmediality of such environments, I argue, we have a chance to both augment and go beyond the field’s long-standing preoccupation with narrative, attend to various strategies of communicating illness experience, and re-frame them within larger questions of systemic inequalities. On this basis, and taking as examples COVID-19 and Long COVID, I sketch some of the directions that future strands of medical humanities may take and some of the questions we still have to ask for the field to overcome its own biases and blind spots.

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“…The fact that anyone could catch and pass on the virus provided a natural foundation for the 'responsibilitisation' of the individual, as the everyday act of breathing became a subject of social and political scrutiny (Davies and Savulescu, 2022). Moreover, as one medical ethics paper muses, 'times of crisis mandate an "all hands on deck" response' (Redmann et al, 2020: 325).…”

Section: A 'Dutiful Citizen'mentioning

confidence: 99%