What’s in a name?: contrasting the politics of post-covid symptoms across three countries
Long-term symptoms continuing after a Covid-19 infection have emerged as a complex medical, scientific, and economic problem in numerous societies around the world. Moreover, how this problem is addressed may have important consequences in terms of trust or lack thereof in scientific, medical, and p...
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Confianza política de la expertise redes de expertise Covid Persistente Covid-19 experiencia de pacientes Trust politics of expertise expertise networks Long Covid Covid-19 patient experiences Eyal, Gil Au, Larry Capotescu, Cristian Curi, Amanda Leonel da Silva, Renan Gonçalves Fang, Yijie Lang, Jingyu Li, Shuhan Liu, Chang Liu, Jessica Su, Jian What’s in a name?: contrasting the politics of post-covid symptoms across three countries |
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Long-term symptoms continuing after a Covid-19 infection have emerged as a complex medical, scientific, and economic problem in numerous societies around the world. Moreover, how this problem is addressed may have important consequences in terms of trust or lack thereof in scientific, medical, and political institutions. Drawing on three studies of patient experiences with Covid-19 recovery in the United States, Brazil, and China, we find significant variation in how patients talk about their condition in the three countries. While American patients embrace Long Covid as a disease identity, Chinese patients were wary of using the term, while Brazilian patients were somewhere between the two. These differences in naming become intelligible within a grid composed of three cross-cutting axes of comparison: (1) the symbolic politics of disease classification and representation; (2) institutionalized channels of healthcare and welfare state provision; and (3) position in the global geopolitical and knowledge production system. We conclude that even if global public health institutions manage to institutionalize Long Covid as a standard disease category, there will remain significant differences between countries in the meaning and scope of the condition due to the differences in the politics of expertise in each country. |
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I10-R276-article-452472025-08-29T17:57:10Z What’s in a name?: contrasting the politics of post-covid symptoms across three countries ¿Qué hay en un nombre? La política de los síntomas post- covid en tres países Eyal, Gil Au, Larry Capotescu, Cristian Curi, Amanda Leonel da Silva, Renan Gonçalves Fang, Yijie Lang, Jingyu Li, Shuhan Liu, Chang Liu, Jessica Su, Jian Confianza política de la expertise redes de expertise Covid Persistente Covid-19 experiencia de pacientes Trust politics of expertise expertise networks Long Covid Covid-19 patient experiences Long-term symptoms continuing after a Covid-19 infection have emerged as a complex medical, scientific, and economic problem in numerous societies around the world. Moreover, how this problem is addressed may have important consequences in terms of trust or lack thereof in scientific, medical, and political institutions. Drawing on three studies of patient experiences with Covid-19 recovery in the United States, Brazil, and China, we find significant variation in how patients talk about their condition in the three countries. While American patients embrace Long Covid as a disease identity, Chinese patients were wary of using the term, while Brazilian patients were somewhere between the two. These differences in naming become intelligible within a grid composed of three cross-cutting axes of comparison: (1) the symbolic politics of disease classification and representation; (2) institutionalized channels of healthcare and welfare state provision; and (3) position in the global geopolitical and knowledge production system. We conclude that even if global public health institutions manage to institutionalize Long Covid as a standard disease category, there will remain significant differences between countries in the meaning and scope of the condition due to the differences in the politics of expertise in each country. La persistencia de síntomas a largo plazo tras una infección por Covid-19 se ha convertido en un complejo problema médico, científico y económico en numerosas sociedades de todo el mundo. Además, la forma de abordar este problema puede tener importantes consecuencias en términos de confianza o falta de esta en las instituciones científicas, médicas y políticas. A partir de tres estudios sobre experiencias de pacientes con la recuperación del Covid-19 en Estados Unidos, Brasil y China, descubrimos variaciones significativas en la forma en que los pacientes hablan de su enfermedad en los tres países. Mientras que los pacientes estadounidenses adoptan el Covid Persistente como una identidad de la enfermedad, los pacientes chinos se mostraron cautelosos a la hora de utilizar el término, y los pacientes brasileños se situaron en un punto intermedio entre ambos. Estas diferencias en la denominación se hacen inteligibles dentro de una cuadrícula compuesta por tres ejes transversales de comparación: (1) la política simbólica de clasificación y representación de la enfermedad; (2) los canales institucionalizados de prestación de asistencia sanitaria y del Estado de bienestar; y (3) la posición en el sistema geopolítico global y de producción de conocimiento. Llegamos a la conclusión de que, aunque las instituciones sanitarias públicas mundiales consigan institucionalizar el Covid persistente como una categoría de enfermedad estándar, seguirá habiendo diferencias significativas entre países en cuanto al significado y el alcance de la afección, debido a las diferencias en las políticas del conocimiento en cada país. Universidad Nacional de Rio Negro 2024-06-06 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cps/article/view/45247 Ciencia, Público y Sociedad; Vol. 1 Núm. 1 (2024): Enero-Abril; 3-22 2314-1387 2314-1387 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cps/article/view/45247/45237 Derechos de autor 2024 Gil Eyal, Larry Au, Cristian Capotescu, Amanda Curi, Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva, Yijie (Coco) Fang, Jingyu Lang, Shuhan Li, Chang Liu, Jessica Liu, Jian Su https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 |