Touching at Depth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Not Touching Babies Can Teach Us about How to Improve Healthcare

Authors

  • Kathleen Rice McGill University Department of Family Medicine

Keywords:

Touch, affect, healthcare, touching at depth, COVID-19, Perinatal care

Abstract

After maybe three days, my husband’s parents came over from Salt Spring Island. We made a mug of coffee, we got muffins, and
they brought their own lawn chairs. They sat out on the lawn below our apartment balcony and looked up at their grandson, our baby, and I just bawled the whole time.

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Published

2023-06-05

How to Cite

Rice, K. (2023). Touching at Depth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Not Touching Babies Can Teach Us about How to Improve Healthcare. Ars Medica, 17(1), 13 pp. Retrieved from https://www.ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1599

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