The carelessness and the inhospitable. Inhabiting times of pandemic.

e202210052

Authors

  • Lydia Feito Grande Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Madrid. España.
  • Tomás Domingo Moratalla Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. Madrid. España.

Keywords:

Hospitality, Care, Pandemic, Narrative, Ethics, Vulnerability, Moral damage, Syndemic, Recognition, Solidarity

Abstract

The pandemic has placed us in a situation of estrangement from ourselves. We have been acutely aware of our vulnerability and fragility. Through the stories of lived experiences, we have learned about and witnessed tragic circumstances in which inhospitality and neglect have become evident. We have been shocked by the awareness of the lack of recognition, accompaniment and welcome. Institutional decisions have prioritized public health, the good for all, but have forgotten the biographies of people, full of suffering. And this has produced a moral damage, a loss of trust, a feeling of injustice that we have not been able to fight against. This is why it is necessary to build hospitality, which can be achieved through care. Care with a political dimension that takes charge of reality and transforms society. The key is a responsibility in solidarity. Faced with the possibility of dehumanizing ourselves, we seek hospitality as an alternative way of narrating lives that have to be reconstructed, that have to relearn how to take care of each other amidst the multiple possibilities of estrangement that threaten us. Hospitality is at the heart of a narrative ethics at the height of our times.

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2022-10-05

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Feito Grande L, Domingo Moratalla T. The carelessness and the inhospitable. Inhabiting times of pandemic.: e202210052. Rev Esp Salud Pública [Internet]. 2022 Oct. 5 [cited 2024 Nov. 21];96:10 páginas. Available from: https://ojs.sanidad.gob.es/index.php/resp/article/view/263

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