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Accepted Paper:
Intimacy with numbers. The Changing Relationship with Medical Data at the Time of COVID-19 pandemic
Ela Drazkiewicz
(Slovak Academy of Sciences)
Paper short abstract:
This paper examines the ways in which COVID-19 redefined the relationships that experts and the members of the public have with medical data. Focusing on Irish examples it will explore how the context of the pandemic turned numbers from abstract cognitive tools into affective tenets of social lives.
Paper long abstract:
As the coronavirus started to spread in Ireland, the epidemiological data became the most sought-after information in the country. This paper will examine the ways in which COVID-19 redefined the intimacies of the relationships that health professionals and the members of the public have with medical data. It will focus on Irish examples and explore how the context of the pandemic turned numbers from abstract cognitive tools into important and affective tenets of social lives that dictated the moral values and conditions of sociality. It will examine the role of enumeration and metrics in mediating new forms of intimacy with state and society.