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22.04.2020

A review: Easter in times of COVID-19

Blog article by Sabine Schacht

This year's Easter presented us with special challenges regarding COVID-19. We were and are perhaps confronted very directly with illness, death and suffering in our immediate surroundings, or we experienced and still experience rather indirectly, be it through the media and/or through the restrictions of our everyday life, what a pandemic can mean. This raises the question of the manageability, meaning and coherence of what we are experiencing. This contribution would like to show how this question is related to the health science perspective of the so-called salutogenesis according to Antonovsky and his "good swimmer" in the flow of life. Salutogenesis asks about the origin of health, healing and happiness of man.

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