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Panic, denial, and the search for “magic remedies:” the various social responses to covid-19 in Peru

Between March 2020 and March 2022, more than 213,000 Peruvians died of covid-19. In this research note, we will identify and analyze the various social responses to covid-19 in Peru: denial, panic, search for culprits, search for “magic remedies,” and, in some sectors, mistrust towards the State and...

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Autor principal: Lossio, Jorge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10481588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37585976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702023000100031
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description Between March 2020 and March 2022, more than 213,000 Peruvians died of covid-19. In this research note, we will identify and analyze the various social responses to covid-19 in Peru: denial, panic, search for culprits, search for “magic remedies,” and, in some sectors, mistrust towards the State and science. We argue that these social responses have been common throughout history, both in pandemics prior to the development of the bacteriological era and in the most recent ones. We intend to show that, in Peru, scientific ideas around health and disease coexist with religious ideas, conspiracy theories and traditional knowledge.
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spelling pubmed-104815882023-09-06 Panic, denial, and the search for “magic remedies:” the various social responses to covid-19 in Peru Lossio, Jorge Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos Research Note Between March 2020 and March 2022, more than 213,000 Peruvians died of covid-19. In this research note, we will identify and analyze the various social responses to covid-19 in Peru: denial, panic, search for culprits, search for “magic remedies,” and, in some sectors, mistrust towards the State and science. We argue that these social responses have been common throughout history, both in pandemics prior to the development of the bacteriological era and in the most recent ones. We intend to show that, in Peru, scientific ideas around health and disease coexist with religious ideas, conspiracy theories and traditional knowledge. Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 2023-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10481588/ /pubmed/37585976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-59702023000100031 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10481588/
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