Speculating About Futures with Covid Reinfection in the UK

The Body as a Site of Educated Guesswork

Bibliographic Data

ID4564580
AuthorsA Dowrick (0000-0002-2937-6728, OX2 6GG University of Oxford, corresponding author), K Qureshi (0000-0001-6862-7852, University of Edinburgh), T Rai (0000-0001-5201-9780, OX2 6GG University of Oxford)
Year2025
Pages1-12
Publication date2025-02-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2025.2461305
PMID39905752
OpenAlexW4407181984
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

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

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Economics · Financial economics · Futures contract · Pathology · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Virology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics