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PandemIcons? The Medical Scientist as Iconic Figure in Times of Crisis (2021)

Martin Butler (Author)
Sina Farzin (Author)
Fuchs, Michael (Author)

Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Volume: 29
Issue: 4
Pages: 435-451
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/836417

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Medicine and society Medicine and politics Rhetorical analysis Science and politics Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Mass media Pandemics 21st century Germany United States Fauci, Anthony S.

In perhaps unparalleled fashion, the ongoing pandemic has showcased the complex entanglements between science and other fields of society, such as politics and the media. This intricate and often conflictive relationship becomes particularly manifest in the controversies surrounding scientific experts, who have been transformed from science communicators into iconic figures since the outbreak of COVID-19. Accordingly, this article examines two of these “pandemIcons,” the American immunologist Anthony Fauci and the German virologist Christian Drosten, which have functioned as sites of ideological struggle. As this article shows, the cultural negotiation of these iconic figures demonstrates not only how the media have been engaging with images of scientists in Western countries during the COVID-19 pandemic but also how repertoires of (often stereotypical and hegemonic) images and rhetorical strategies employed in the formation and transformation of these figures circulate across both media and national borders.

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Article Tim Urban; Melissa Littlefield; Rajani Sudan (2021) Special Issue: Science, Technology, and Literature during Plague and Pandemics. Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (pp. 365-373). unapi

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