Between bodily distancing and lockdown: solidarity as praxis in pandemic times
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This article aims to discuss bodily distancing, a step recommended by public health agencies facing COVID 19, in the perspective of hermeneutic solidarity. Seeking to understand social distance in solidarity terms, not only deepening its sense during the pandemic but visualizing it as an opportunity to philosophically resignify the sense of health promoted by entities and in the engagement of communities affected by the disease. Such discussion, although located in a pandemic moment, allows both a review of the reach of social health promotion processes, going beyond the biomedical protocols of individual and collective care, as advocated by WHO, as the practical awareness of the need of a healthy common environment, as Gadamer claims.
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