COVID-19, Framing and Naming a Pandemic: How What Is Not in a Disease Name May Be More Important than What Is
While the disease name and acronym COVID-19, where ‘CO’ refers to ‘corona’, ‘VI’ to virus, ‘D’ to disease, and ‘19′ the detection year, represents a rational, historically informed, and even culturally sensitive name choice by the World Health Organization, from the perspective of an ethnography of...
Main Author: | T. S. Harvey |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
MDPI AG
2023-02-01
|
Series: | Pathogens |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/12/2/346 |
Similar Items
-
What’s in a Name?—Consequences of Naming Non-Human Animals
by: Sune Borkfelt
Published: (2011-01-01) -
What's in a name? : advertising and the concept of brands /
by: 190431 Jones, John Philip
Published: (1986) -
What's in a Brand Name? A Note on the Onomastics of Brand Naming
by: Marcel Danesi
Published: (2011-09-01) -
Translate or transliterate? When metonymic names are more than proper names
by: Raja Lahiani
Published: (2022-03-01) -
What Age Is in a Name?
by: Sasha Shen Johfre
Published: (2020-07-01)