Care homes

Essays
COVID-19 & Touch
Mickey Vallee

Essays
Forgotten ‘Heroes’: Frontline Nurses’ Experiences of the Covid-19 Crisis
Radha Adhikari, Sushila Karki-Budhathoki, Kate Weir
The government’s appropriation of health professionals as ‘NHS Heroes’ has been mainly a way of keeping the issue of economic and social justice at bay, without making any meaningful political commitment to improve workers’ long-term wellbeing.

Letters and Reflections
Mums Need Hugs: The Contradictions of Public Health
Karen Horrocks

Essays
“Our physical and mental health are most affected by our material conditions”: The Struggle of Frontline Health Workers in India
Sanjana Santosh
Facing the pressure to do multiple surveys along with their routine work, frontline health workers in India wonder why the collected data is so valued while their labour and time congealed within the data remain undervalued.
Essays
COVID-19, Racialisation and Care: Nepali Healthcare Practitioners’ Frontline Experience
Radha Adhikari

Photos and Art
Zooming Mum: Lockdown in the Care Home
Kate Carruthers Thomas

Essays
Death in the absence of hugs
Pat Sikes

Essays
A Malleable Border Teeming with Life
Lata Mani

Essays
Hacia una cultura del cuidado / Towards a Culture of Care
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori