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[Talking about COVID-19: contributions to the construction of a collective memory of the syndemic through the lens of food]. / Hablar de COVID-19: aportes a la construcción de una memoria colectiva de la sindemia desde la alimentación.
Aguirre, Patricia.
  • Aguirre P; Doctora en Antropología. Docente e investigadora, Instituto de Salud Colectiva, Universidad Nacional de Lanús, Argentina. patriciaguirre2@gmail.com.
Salud Colect ; 18: e4054, 2022 11 14.
Article in Spanish | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2164397
ABSTRACT
This article explores the question of why the nine pandemics prior to COVID-19 - which have affected millions of people since the second half of the 20th century - were not recorded in collective memory despite their magnitude and extent. Thus, it proposes a reading of the pandemic as one component of a wider syndemic made up of contagious diseases, climate change, and malnutrition. This piece offers a narrative of the origins, development, and prospects of the pandemic within the dynamics of the global food system and national economic and political systems, highlighting components and connections. It includes a warning that - along with climate change and malnutrition (undernourishment-obesity) - pandemics are known and expected outcomes of the workings of a socio-political system that, as in the case of other components of the syndemic, by naturalizing causes and individualizing consequences, conspire against the creation of narratives that go beyond cosmetic changes.
RESUMEN
Este trabajo se pregunta por qué las nueve pandemias que afectaron a millones de personas desde la última mitad del siglo XX no se inscribieron en la memoria colectiva pese a su gravedad y difusión. Propone leer la pandemia de COVID-19 como componente de la sindemia enfermedades infecciosas-cambio climático-malnutrición, y genera un relato de los orígenes, desarrollo y perspectivas del COVID-19 dentro de la dinámica del sistema alimentario global y los sistemas económico-políticos nacionales, señalando componentes y relaciones. Advierte que, como en el caso del cambio climático o la malnutrición (desnutrición-obesidad), las pandemias son subproductos conocidos y esperables del funcionamiento del sistema sociopolítico que, al igual que en los otros componentes de la sindemia, la naturalización de las causas y la individualización de las consecuencias conspiran contra la creación de una narrativa que vaya más allá de admitir cambios cosméticos.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Malnutrition / COVID-19 Type of study: Observational study Limits: Humans Language: Spanish Journal: Salud Colect Year: 2022 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: Sc.2022.4054

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Malnutrition / COVID-19 Type of study: Observational study Limits: Humans Language: Spanish Journal: Salud Colect Year: 2022 Document Type: Article Affiliation country: Sc.2022.4054