Understanding the Complexity of Pacing in Long Covid

A New Approach to Chronic Illness
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7891-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

For millions with Long Covid and energy-limiting conditions, pacing is survival. While most research focuses on causes and treatments, this book examines the overlooked long of Long Covid and its many temporal disruptions.

Drawing on complex realism and thousands of social media posts, the authors reframe pacing as temporal labour: exhausting, invisible work where limits only become visible once crossed. They introduce polyrhythmic biographical disruption, where disruption is not a single event but ongoing, and the uncanny-not-yetness: the eerie limbo of post-exertional malaise.

This book advocates for temporal justice, because pacing is always, irreducibly social.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Uprichard, Emma

Martin, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pathologie, Cytopathologie, Histopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Complex Realism, Energy and Symptoms

3. Polyrhythmic Biographical Disruption

4. Pacing, Planning and Relapses

5. Living with the Unequal Burden of Time

6. The Uncanny-Not-Yetness

7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Martin, Sam
Sam Martin is Senior Research Fellow & Big Qualitative Data Lead at the Vaccines & Society Unit, University of Oxford, and the Digital Society Research Cluster, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Uprichard, Emma
Emma Uprichard is Reader at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.

Emma Uprichard is Reader at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick.

Sam Martin is Senior Research Fellow and Big Qualitative Data Lead at the Vaccines and Society Unit at the University of Oxford and the Digital Society Research Cluster at Manchester Metropolitan University.