Biomedicine, Clinical Knowledge, and the Humanities in Collaboration: A Novel Epistemology for Radically Interdisciplinary Health Research and Policy-Work on Post-Covid-19 Syndrome

Interdisciplinary health research rarely brings together, much less examines, the epistemological basis for knowledge production on ill health across biomedical science, clinical knowledge and the medical humanities.

This project does, in a highly original approach that demands researchers work together from the fields of phenomenological philosophy, neurosciences, rehabilitation medicine, intersectionality, and science and technology studies.

The project develops a meta-epistemological framework for interdisciplinary health research and a novel model for health care policy-work, focused on post-Covid as a node of emergent, multidimensional health challenges that require attention to biomedical, social, political and embodied dimensions.

It examines post-Covid fatigue and cognitive impairment, focused on subjectivity, affectivity, and neural processes; the emergence of the post-Covid diagnosis, and how this diagnosis and post-Covid rehabilitation needs are made sense of by different stakeholders. It engages in art-research collaboration.

Its results will be brought to a broad audience, e.g., through public exhibitions and workshops.

The project is divided into 5 subprojects (2022-27) that contribute to the development of novel interdisciplinary theory, methods and analyses of post-Covid.

The framework, the policy-model, and the theory and methods developments will be of high value for and beyond post-Covid for health issues that benefit from analyses across epistemic fields.