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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)
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.