Cabin Fever

Surviving Lockdown in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Paul Crawford|Jamie Orion Crawford
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18 March 2021
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This fascinating and timely book examines the distressing psychological syndrome of 'cabin fever' in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the greatest confinement of people to their homes in history, offering antidotes for it. Exploring the definitions and social and cultural history of cabin fever, a condition provoked by prolonged isolation, the book will be of interest to anyone concerned about the impact of current or any future pandemic lockdowns, prison life, remote living, or even travelling to Mars.

Chapter 1. The Greatest Confinement Chapter 2. A Brief History of Cabin Fever  Chapter 3. Cabin Fever Cases  Chapter 4. Antidotes to Cabin Fever  Chapter 5. Conclusion

    ‘Reading this book pulled me out of the particulars of my lockdown woes and gave me a much deeper cultural and historical frame for our current predicaments. I left buoyed, alive, and clear that we are not alone. We have been in difficult situations like this before, and Cabin Fever shows us how we can navigate them not only with the resources of science, but, also, and refreshingly, with the arts, humanities, and just plain good writing.’

    - Bradley Lewis, Gallatin School, New York University, USA

    In this pithy and masterful book, the Crawfords reveal how the isolation we’ve faced through the covid pandemic sits within a tradition of confinement that human beings have endured for centuries. Their colourful examples describe how humans have faced cabin fever across a panoply of social and historical contexts and, in so doing, they open our minds to the wide range of attitudes we can take towards it. As Cabin Fever reveals the commonalities in how people have experienced confinement across history, we find ourselves in the company of the whole of humankind.

    - Amy Pollard, Founder and Director of Mental Health Collective

    In a short but illuminating book, Crawford and Crawford offer an engaging, impressively researched and highly accessible treatise on [...] cabin fever.

    - Tom Douglass, Department of Social Work and Social Care, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK
    Paul Crawford is Professor of Health Humanities at the University of Nottingham, UK. His many publications include Florence Nightingale at Home (2020), The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (2020) and Humiliation (Emerald, 2019). He is the editor of the Emerald ‘Arts for Health’ series and directs the Centre for Social Futures at the Institute of Mental Health, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society for Public Health. 

    Jamie Orion Crawford is a data analyst and researcher based in Montreal, Canada. He has contributed editorial advice to various publications including The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (ed. Crawford et al, 2020).