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COVID-19 and the reenactment of mass masking in South Korea

How can we explain the divergence of social commitment to mass masking as public health measures in the global response to COVID-19? Rather than searching for deep-rooted cultural norms, this essay views the contemporary practice as a reenactment of multiple layers of accumulated socio-material cond...

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Autores principales: Kim, Heewon, Choi, Hyungsub
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7993065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33768345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00400-y
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spelling pubmed-79930652021-03-26 COVID-19 and the reenactment of mass masking in South Korea Kim, Heewon Choi, Hyungsub Hist Philos Life Sci Notes & Comments How can we explain the divergence of social commitment to mass masking as public health measures in the global response to COVID-19? Rather than searching for deep-rooted cultural norms, this essay views the contemporary practice as a reenactment of multiple layers of accumulated socio-material conditions. This perspective will allow us to pursue a comparative study of the social history of mask-wearing around the world. Springer International Publishing 2021-03-25 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7993065/ /pubmed/33768345 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00400-y Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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