New book chapter on the trauma of Long Covid published!

🚨Extremely pleased that the amazing book on "hashtag#LongCovid and Society", edited by Deborah Lupton is now out!!! 😍 

👉 The book covers a range of urgent social issues. It addresses patient experiences, as well as issues of knowledge production, medical responses, the biopolitics of the pandemic as well as special social groups. An overview of all this is given in the Introduction (which is free to download!). 

👉 You can see the book here: https://lnkd.in/ejxdgCB7 (Note: not all of the book is Open Access - only chapter 1 and 14, and my chapter after 6 months). 

📄 I am very happy, humbled and honoured to have contributed to such an important publication! My chapter (p227-247) is on Long Covid as multilayered traumatisation: trauma is not to be seen here as a psychological disorder but rather as multiple abandonment (physically, medically, socially and politically) wherein a person is no longer regarded and treated as a being of equal worth. And the problem is that in light of such multilayered abandonment the capacity of Long Covid patients to speak back at the injustice inflicted on them is reduced, and even annihiliated. Rather, when speaking back, they often only face more aggression and stigmatisation. 

❗ Of course this chapter focuses on Long Covid, BUT this is happening and has been happening for decades to all PAIS patients (notably, MCAS patients, MECFS patients, Chronic Lyme patients and Qfever patients for example). Long Covid is NOT an isolated case!

🙏 Deborah has done a great job in putting this edited collection together!