Graduate School of Science, Technology, and Policy, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
School of Liberal Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 01811, Republic of Korea.
Hist Philos Life Sci. 2021 Mar 25;43(2):44. doi: 10.1007/s40656-021-00400-y.
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.
我们如何解释在全球应对 COVID-19 的过程中,社会对大规模戴口罩这一公共卫生措施的承诺存在分歧?本文认为,与其寻找根深蒂固的文化规范,不如将当代实践视为对多层累积的社会物质条件的重新演绎。这种观点将使我们能够对世界各地戴口罩的社会历史进行比较研究。