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Who We Test For: Aligning Relational and Public Health Responsibilities in COVID-19 Testing in Scotland.
Document Type
Article
Source
Medical Anthropology. 2024, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p277-294. 18p.
Subject
*COVID-19 testing
*PUBLIC health
*RESPONSIBILITY
*AUTOPOIESIS
Language
ISSN
0145-9740
Abstract
COVID-19 testing programs in the UK often called on people to test to "protect others." In this article we explore motivations to test and the relationships to "others" involved in an asymptomatic testing program at a Scottish university. We show that participants engaged with testing as a relational technology, through which they navigated multiple overlapping responsibilities to kin, colleagues, flatmates, strangers, and to more diffuse publics. We argue that the success of testing as a technique of governance depends not only on the production of disciplined selves, but also on the program's capacity to align interpersonal and public scales of responsibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]