Hubert Wierciński
Prace Etnograficzne, Tom 49 Numer 3, 2021, s. 201 - 217
https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.21.013.14348Interweaving an Epidemic World: Fragments of an Ethnography of Primary Health Care in the era of the COVID-19 Pandemic
In the article I analyse the responses of Polish primary care practitioners to coronavirus pandemic. I argue that the doctors by – employing their skills and knowledge – ad hoc started to reconstruct their professional world heavily influenced by the virus. I employ a body of literature focused on risk-taking, risk society, and second modernity to shed more light on doctors` practices, who entered a risky, yet intellectually and professionally refreshing interplay with the threads brought to them by the virus.
Hubert Wierciński
Prace Etnograficzne, Tom 49 Numer 4, 2021, s. 285 - 306
https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.21.018.14853COVID-19 Pandemic: Inventing Skills and Strategies of Action among Primary Care Practitioners
In the article, I analyse responses of Polish primary care practitioners to the COVID-19 pandemic. I apply and develop the concepts of skills and enskilment to shed more light on the practices and knowledge-making strategies employed by doctors to cope with the challenges the COVID-19 outbreak has brought to their professional practice.