ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on sociocultural constructions of and negotiations around COVID-19 at individual, local, sociocultural, national, and global levels. It provides autoethnographic reflections on Sweden and its international media coverage during the coronavirus pandemic. The book describes their loss and longing for the field that resulted from indefinite travel bans between many states in Australia. It presents ethnographic research. The book focuses on stigma, noting the endless media reports about doctors and nurses refusing to attend patients with high temperatures and community members actually publicly lynching one man who was considered to be a “super-spreader”—even though he did not have the disease. It examines how United States (US) obstetricians, midwives, doulas, and labor and delivery nurses have negotiated the dangers of COVID-19 by adapting their practices according to ever-changing scientific information and ever-emerging policies and protocols.
