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E-book Ohio under COVID : Lessons from America's Heartland in Crisis

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In early March of 2020, Americans watched with uncertain terror as the “novel coronavirus” pandemic unfolded in the coastal cities of Seattle and Boston as well as around the world. No one in the heartland state of Ohio had been infected—as far as we knew, given the scarcity of tests. One week later, on March 9, Ohio announced its first confirmed cases of the disease we now call “COVID-19” or just “COVID.” Only one year later, the state’s case count was nearly one million and over 18,000 Ohioans had lost their lives (Ohio Department of Health 2020a). In 2022, as this volume goes to press, the pandemic drags on: vaccines battle variants across the globe while death counts continue to tick up. What happened over the course of that first pandemic year is not only a story of a public health disaster, but also a story of social disparities and moral dilemmas, of lives and livelihoods turned upside down, and of institutions and safety nets stretched to their limits.This volume tells the human story of COVID in Ohio, America’s “bellwether” state. The volume was conceived in our Health Humanities Research Group, a project of the Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. We are six scholars housed in six different academic departments: History, Philosophy, Sociology, English, Africana Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Individually, we study issues of human health and well-being using the tools of our respective disciplines. Together, we collaborate across our disciplines to shed new light on complex problems. There is much discipline-based research on COVID that advances the state of knowledge in particular fields. While this is valuable, it is not our aim. Although our group happily includes empirical social scientists along with humanists, we see this project as falling within the interdisciplinary field known as Health Humanities. The book, like the field of Health Humanities itself, takes an approach to human health and well-being that is “inclusive, outward-facing, and applied” (Crawford et al. 2010).Reflecting on our roles as researchers at a public university in the middle of a catastrophic public health event, we see this volume as an opportunity to bring together diverse voices and make their perspectives accessible, at no financial cost, to a wide audience within and beyond Ohio. The book is therefore not only an example of Health Humanities but also Public Humanities. It features work that is “collab-orative and relational, political and personal, happening in public and producing new understandings for the humanities” (Smulyan 2020: 1). To this end, we issued a call for proposals that encouraged a wide range of responses from within and outside academia. Our contributors all lived or worked in Ohio when COVID-19 hit, but they are not all pro-fessional scholars or researchers. They include activists, educators, health-care workers, and students.

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614.5 ACT o

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USA : University of Michigan Press., 2023

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341 hlm

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English

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9780472903061

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614.5

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computer

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online resource

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