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Open Access 01-12-2020 | Editorial

Globalization and health scholarship in a time of pandemic: from critical past to uncertain future

Author: Ronald Labonté

Published in: Globalization and Health | Issue 1/2020

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So many things in our lives became unhinged in a few short weeks: lock-downs, quarantines, social distancing, pandemic infection and death, an economic meltdown to rival 2008, and shortages in everything from medical supplies to food. Few nations or peoples in the world are unaffected, and how SARS-CoV2 and its COVID-2019 disease will eventually play out remains a riveting question mark for those of us with privileged lives, and an imminent threat for those without. …

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Title: Globalization and health scholarship in a time of pandemic: from critical past to uncertain future
Author: Ronald Labonté
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Globalization and Health / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 1744-8603
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00563-6

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