Syndemic in a pandemic: An autoethnography of a COVID survivor
| Autor: | Kishinchand Poornima Wasdani |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Psychotherapist media_common.quotation_subject pandemic Stigma (botany) Autoethnography Disease Affect (psychology) humanities culture Gender Studies Syndemic stigma Xenophobia survivor Pandemic syndemic Original Article authoethnography Misinformation Psychology media_common COVID |
| Zdroj: | Gender, Work, and Organization |
| ISSN: | 1468-0432 0968-6673 |
| Popis: | This paper provides my personal experience as a COVID‐19 survivor during and postrecovery periods. The stigma that my children and I underwent exposed us to the fragility of a social system that we struggle with all through our life to remain a part of. My story revealed a strong symbiotic relationship between the disease (COVID‐19) and the patient's low acceptance in society, primarily attributed to misinformation and xenophobia around the COVID‐19. This autoethnography speaks for several other COVID survivors who met with the same fate of being discriminated against and stigmatized. As a COVID patient and survivor, the traumatic experience was creating a fear psychosis in me, the effect of which I presume will stay beyond COVID‐19. This condition of a syndemic seems to linger and negatively affect my outlook toward society. If COVID survivors develop a syndemic condition in a pandemic situation, it will require significant efforts to reserve it or sometimes even become irreversible. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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