ArticleWellcome open research2020
'Containment, delay, mitigation': waiting and care in the time of a pandemic.
Article in Wellcome open research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- (Un)timely care: findings from the Waiting Times project.Wellcome open research · 2024Article
- The shadows of waiting and care: on discourses of waiting in the history of the British National Health Service.Wellcome open research · 2023Article
- 'What about the coffee break?': Designing virtual conference spaces for conviviality.Geo : geography and environment · 2022Article
- Lockdown and adolescent mental health: reflections from a child and adolescent psychotherapist.Wellcome open research · 2020Article
- Historicising "containment and delay": COVID-19, the NHS and high-risk patients.Wellcome open research · 2020Article
- Waiting for other people: a psychoanalytic interpretation of the time for action.Wellcome open research · 2020Article
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Abstract
In this paper, we take up three terms - containment, delay, mitigation - that have been used by the UK Government to describe their phased response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the terms refer to a political and public health strategy - contain the virus, flatten the peak of the epidemic, mitigate its effects - we offer a psychosocial reading that draws attention to the relation between time and care embedded in each term. We do so to call for the development of a form of care-ful attention under conditions that tend to prompt action rather than reflection, closing down time for thinking. Using Adriana Cavarero's notion of 'horrorism', in which violence is enacted at precisely the point that care is most needed, we discuss the ever-present possibility of failures
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