TY - JOUR
AU - Dowrick, Anna
AU - Qureshi, Kaveri
AU - Rai, Tanvi
PY - 2025
DA - February
TI - Speculating about futures with Covid reinfection in the UK: The body as a site of educated guesswork
JO - Medical Anthropology
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2025.2461305
AB - We revisit a time in 2021 when people in the UK were coming to terms with an unwanted future characterised 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, and negotiating futures as understanding about different consequences of “living with COVID-19” moved in and out of view.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/0ba790b3-c4f6-4733-95bb-0201fddc5489
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Education
ER