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Accepted Contribution
llness narratives of covid-19 patients: preliminary explorations
Elisabeth Hsu
(University of Oxford)
Gillian Chan
(University of Oxford)
Yasmynn Chowdhury
(University of Oxford)
Sonora English
(University College London)
Contribution short abstract
Much has been written about covid-19 as disease and as sickness, often in a militaristic vocabulary. This paper analyses conversations conducted on zoom or equivalent with interlocutors willing to talk about their illness experience.
Contribution long abstract
Much has been written about covid-19 as disease and as sickness, often in a militaristic vocabulary. However, ten months into the pandemic, research into the narratives of common people who believe they had covid-19 and recovered, to whatever degree, are still quite uncommon. This paper analyses conversations conducted on zoom or equivalent with 2 x 30 interlocutors, friends of friends, recruited through the snow ball method, willing to speak to the two co-authors, one in her 20s, the other in her 60s. It aims to identify themes of concern which include age related illness experiences, and their severity, co-morbidities and experiences of treatment and recovery (or not). Its focus is on acute episodes of covid-19, but it does not exclude participants wishing to speak about long covid.