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).

‘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.’

• 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