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  • Biology and technology: guarding, nurturing, and governing life

    • Authors: Michael Keane; Xiao Han (2021)

  • The COVID-19 pandemic has changed perceptions of human mortality. Statistics of infection and vaccination rates dominate news bulletins. An aphorism by the French poet and critic Paul Valéry captures the prevailing feeling of uncertainty, ‘The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.’ Whereas predictions of the future have often cele-brated technological advances and increased life expectancies, the pandemic now threatens to curtail peoples’ lifespans.
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  • Restoration of mobility through mobile health: the digital health code as a technology of governance

    • Authors: Jing Meng; Yang Liu; Michael Keane (2021)

  • The coronavirus pandemic is challenging the existing global economic order and the risk of infection is reordering the way people interact. Communication technologies have provided new ways of managing social activities and maintaining social order. The digital health code is a technology developed to digitize health and mobility via mobile devices; its objective is to restore the flow and control of the physical body in a post-pandemic society. This paper examines the digital health code in post-pandemic China. Through analysis of its technical structure, government policies and the use of the digital health code, the paper explores how this social biotechnology reconstructs the notio...