[New Release] 'Things Visible When Sick'

◆Visible Signs of Suffering = This series examines the pains of Korean society that are difficult to explain through medicine, from an anthropological perspective. It covers rare incurable diseases, deaths of critically ill patients, caregiving labor, and social disasters. It points to inequality, discrimination, and hatred as root causes, emphasizing the need for healing and solidarity. This is a proposal to seek new possibilities rather than mere criticism or denial.

"The Sewol Ferry disaster, having repeatedly experienced the incompetence and evasion of responsibility by those accountable, has come to be recognized not as an accidental and unavoidable ‘accident’ but as a historical ‘event’ requiring fact verification and interpretation. As a result, it caused even more horrific pain and suffering not only to the victims themselves but also to the majority of the nation. The pain of the Sewol Ferry disaster was not caused by unavoidable personal issues but was amplified and intensified by institutional and political engineering factors, making it truly a social suffering."

(Written by Sohee Je, Jiwon Kim, Bokyung Seo, et al. / Humanitas)

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