MeST Talk Kristin Zeiler

Title: Processes and Practices of Interdisciplinary Health Research: The Case of Fatigue in Post COVID-19 Condition.

Abstract: Much work in medical humanities combine perspectives from within the humanities and the social sciences in analyses of illnesses, health care practices, and knowledge production within biomedicine. Less often do scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, clinical research, and biomedicine work jointly in one and the same project, even though this is gradually changing. This is the case in the project “Biomedicine, Clinical Knowledge, and the Humanities in Collaboration: A Novel Epistemology for Radically Interdisciplinary Health Research and Policy-Work on Post-Covid-19 Syndrome”, funded by the Swedish Research Council. The project inquires into both challenges and possibilities when working across epistemic fields, with an eye for how different epistemological perspectives and choices of methodologies impact on the understanding and production of a complex, emergent object of study, such as PCC/Long COVID. 

This talk presents the project above and specifically the subproject on Fatigue in PCC, and our on-going work on affectivity in fatigue in PCC. In this subproject, we work from within an enactive framework, using a five-step design that invites conversations across perspectives and insights from rehabilitation medicine, neuroradiology, neurobiology, and qualitative phenomenological philosophy.

Date and time:

21 October, 13:30-14:30.

Place:

Room 5.0.22 at CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5.