Andrea Ford

We sat on a log in the Mortonhall arboretum in Edinburgh, occasionally waving away the midges that hovered to bite our ankles. My old dog accompanied us. The grounds of a manor-turned-public-park was an unconventional site for an interview, but I had become friends with Diana over the course of shadowing the endometriosis support group she led. The COVID-19 lockdown had been briefly lifted by the Scottish government and we were eager to be outside.

Ethics COVID-19 Medical humanities Philosophy Social science Introduction In recent years the concept of vulnerability has been gaining traction in theoretical and professional spaces interested in medicine and health. Critical and activist scholarship has theorised health vulnerability in terms of disability, race and gender justice, and has drawn attention to underlying structural and epistemic conditions (eg, Chung 2021).

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