Viral life: Covid-19's destabilisation of our thinking
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
TITLE AUTHOR(S): R.Adams, C.Soudien
KEYWORDS: COVID-19, HUMAN RIGHTS
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC), Impact Centre (IC), Office of the CEO (ERM), Office of the CEO (OCEO), Office of the CEO (IL), Office of the CEO (BS), Impact Centre (PRESS), Impact Centre (CC), Office of the CEO (IA)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11709
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15648
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15648
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Abstract
The question of life is and has been one of the most important and keenly contested questions of the modern era. What constitutes life? When does life begin? What is the essence of human life? What is the distinction, and how is this evidenced, between being alive and having life? And, whose life matters?-
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