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A (Bio)anthropological View of the COVID-19 Era Midstream: Beyond the Infection

2020; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 12; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/19428200.2020.1760635

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Agustín Fuentes,

Zoonotic diseases and public health

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1. Agustín Fuentes, The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional (New York: Dutton, 2017).2. “Naming the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and the Virus That Causes It,” World Health Organization, https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it.3. 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Ed Yong, “Why the Coronavirus Has Been So Successful,” The Atlantic, March 20, 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/biography-new-coronavirus/608338/.6. Neeltje van Doremalen et al. “Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1,” New England Journal of Medicine 382 (2020): 1564–67, doi:10.1056/NEJMc2004973.7. Holly Yan, Natasha Chen, and Dushyant Naresh, “What’s Spreading Faster than Coronavirus in the US? 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(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2020); “Race, Racism, and White Supremacy,” eds. Aisha Beliso-De Jesús and Jemima Pierre, American Anthropologist, March 6, 2020, http://www.americananthropologist.org/2020/03/06/whiteness-and-white-supremacy/.12. As summaries, see, for example, A. Kearns and E. Whitley, “Associations of Internet Access With Social Integration, Well-Being and Physical Activity Among Adults in Deprived Communities: Evidence From a Household Survey,” BMC Public Health 19 (2019): 860, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7199-x; J. L. Clark, S. B. Algoe, and M. C. Green, “Social Network Sites and Well-Being: The Role of Social Connection,” Current Directions in Psychological Science 27, no. 1 (2018): 32–37, https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417730833; Janelle W. Myhre, Matthias R. Mehl, and Elizabeth L. Glisky, “Cognitive Benefits of Online Social Networking for Healthy Older Adults,” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 72, no. 5 (2017): 752–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbw025.13. “WCS Statement and Analysis: On the Chinese Government’s Decision Prohibiting Some Trade and Consumption of Wild Animals,” Wildlife Conservation Society, February 26, 2020, https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/13855/WCS-Statement-and-Analysis-On-the-Chinese-Governments-Decision-Prohibiting-Some-Trade-and-Consumption-of-Wild-Animals.aspx.Additional informationNotes on contributorsAgustín Fuentes Agustín Fuentes, trained in zoology and anthropology, is Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He has conducted research across four continents and 2 million years of human history and is interested in both the big questions and the small details of the human experience. His current explorations include the roles of creativity and imagination in human evolution, multispecies anthropology, evolutionary theory and the structures of race and racism. Fuentes’ recent books include Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths About Human Nature (University of California Press, 2012), Conversations on Human Nature (with Aku Visala; Routledge, 2016), The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional (Dutton, 2017), and Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being (Yale University Press, 2019).