Contextualising Long Covid: Viral Sequelae, 'Post-Encephalitis' Lethargica and the Modern British Healthcare System, c. 1918-1945.

IF 0.6 2区 哲学 Q1 HISTORY
Social History of Medicine Pub Date : 2024-09-27 eCollection Date: 2024-11-01 DOI:10.1093/shm/hkae052
Kate McAllister
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Abstract

In the months after March 2020, people across Britain began to seek medical attention for protracted illness following an infection with coronavirus disease 2019. Through the efforts of patients, these illnesses were eventually gathered into the diagnostic category of 'Long Covid' and therefore viewed as viral sequelae, in turn opening up the possibility for medical care and treatment in the British health system. This article adds to such patient-made knowledge of Long Covid through a comparative historical analysis with the problem of 'Post-Encephalitis' Lethargica (EL). In the early twentieth century, the viral sequelae of EL were parsed in line with and thus shaped by the binary divisions that were becoming used to structure healthcare in Britain. By telling this story of the past, this article provides a framework to understand if and how such administrative divisions within the National Health Service (NHS) might continue to inform perceptions of and responses to Long Covid in the present.

背景长冠:病毒后遗症,“后脑炎”嗜睡和现代英国医疗保健系统,约1918-1945。
在2020年3月之后的几个月里,英国各地的人们在感染2019年冠状病毒病后开始寻求长期疾病的医疗照顾。通过患者的努力,这些疾病最终被归类为“长冠状病毒”的诊断类别,因此被视为病毒后遗症,从而为英国卫生系统的医疗保健和治疗开辟了可能性。本文通过与“后脑炎”嗜睡(EL)问题的比较历史分析,增加了这种患者对Long Covid的了解。在20世纪早期,EL的病毒后遗症被解析为与二元分裂一致,从而形成了二元分裂,这被用于构建英国的医疗保健。通过讲述过去的故事,本文提供了一个框架,以了解国家卫生服务体系(NHS)内的这种行政区划是否以及如何在目前继续影响对长冠状病毒的看法和反应。
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Social History of Medicine
Social History of Medicine 社会科学-科学史与科学哲学
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1.60
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63
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Social History of Medicine , the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, is concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. It is committed to publishing work on the social history of medicine from a variety of disciplines. The journal offers its readers substantive and lively articles on a variety of themes, critical assessments of archives and sources, conference reports, up-to-date information on research in progress, a discussion point on topics of current controversy and concern, review articles, and wide-ranging book reviews.
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