Speculating About Futures with Covid Reinfection in the UK: The Body as a Site of Educated Guesswork

Dowrick A., Qureshi K., Rai T.

We revisit a time in 2021 when people in the UK were coming to terms with an unwanted future characterized by chronic COVID-19 infection. Drawing on experiences of people who had already experienced COVID-19 infection, we explore how they made sense of newly perceived vulnerabilities and the possibility of reinfection. We highlight the work of speculating about the future, which involved making “educated guesses” based on embodied knowledge as understanding about different consequences of “living with COVID-19” moved in and out of view.

DOI

10.1080/01459740.2025.2461305

Type

Journal article

Journal

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Publication Date

01/01/2025

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