ArticleFrontiers in sociology2020
From Normal to Viral Body: Death Rituals During Ordinary and Extraordinary Covidian Times in Pakistan.
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- What Is a Good Death in South Asia? A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Community-Level Experiences, Understandings, and Responses to COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Qualitative and Ethnographic Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Rituals of Containment: Many Pandemics, Body Politics, and Social Dramas During COVID-19 in Pakistan.Frontiers in sociology · 2021Article
- Developmental Understanding of Death and Grief Among Children During COVID-19 Pandemic: Application of Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
Death is far from being simply a physiologic event; it is a complex phenomenon with sociocultural and politicoeconomic aspects. During extraordinary times such as the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, death becomes a contested site. I argue that the Pakistani government's dealings with the bodies of people who die from COVID-19 have shifted the meaning of a normal dead body to a
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