Long COVID and Society
International Perspectives
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Beschreibung
This edited book focuses on the social aspects and impacts of Long COVID from an international perspective, including contributions from researchers in the UK, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands. USA and Australia. The book highlights how Long COVID affects people’s identities, social relationships, life opportunities and inclusion in society. Long COVID, like COVID itself, is a social and political as well as a medical phenomenon. People with Long COVID, from young children to older adults, are confronting ableism, social stigma, exclusion, invisibility and gaslighting. The book throws a spotlight on the struggles over the legitimacy of lay expertise versus medical authority and addresses how people with Long COVID are supporting and learning from each other and engaging in activism and advocacy initiatives. Crucially, most of the authors are themselves living with or caring for someone with Long COVID or work closely with Long COVID patient communities and others with lived experience.
Chapters 1 and 14 are available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia. She is located in the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre. She is a leading health sociologist and has been awarded two honorary doctorates for her outstanding achievements in research.
This edited book focuses on the social aspects and impacts of Long COVID from an international perspective, including contributions from researchers in the UK, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands. USA and Australia. The book highlights how Long COVID affects people’s identities, social relationships, life opportunities and inclusion in society. Long COVID, like COVID itself, is a social and political as well as a medical phenomenon. People with Long COVID, from young children to older adults, are confronting ableism, social stigma, exclusion, invisibility and gaslighting. The book throws a spotlight on the struggles over the legitimacy of lay expertise versus medical authority and addresses how people with Long COVID are supporting and learning from each other and engaging in activism and advocacy initiatives. Crucially, most of the authors are themselves living with or caring for someone with Long COVID or work closely with Long COVID patient communities and others with lived experience.
Chapters 1 and 14 are available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
The first book to focus on the social aspects and impacts of Long COVID Highlights how Long COVID affects people’s identities, relationships, opportunities and inclusion in society Brings together social and political theory alongside international insights offered from lived experience
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Deborah Lupton
Themen in »Long COVID and Society«
long COVID health equity pandemics COVID-19 medical sociology medical humanities public health Myalgic Encephalitis (ME) Patient Advocacy Research SARS-CoV-2 infection disability activism patient empowerment grassroots movements social determinants of health systemic inequities