LIFE AND DEATH

What do we do when we have to protect ourselves from each other? All disease threatens our quality of life and can lead to death. The whole of society can feel the ripple effects of infectious diseases, as we are experiencing today. The responsibility of the individual can become burdensome. Many have told of great shame and stigma from having been infected by, for example, HIV, tuberculosis or corona.

"Contagion has always been associated with what is foreign, with what comes from somewhere else : foreign countries, foreign peoples, groups and individuals, foreign habits." (Karin Johanisson, Medicine's Eye)