{"id":2248,"date":"2020-06-07T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/husscovid.micheldurinx.opalstacked.com\/2020\/06\/saving-face-and-public-health-policy-during-covid-19-luna-dolezal\/"},"modified":"2020-06-07T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:57:11","slug":"saving-face-and-public-health-policy-during-covid-19-luna-dolezal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/covidsociety\/2020\/06\/07\/saving-face-and-public-health-policy-during-covid-19-luna-dolezal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Saving face\u2019 and public health policy during COVID-19 (Luna Dolezal)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By Arthur Rose and\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:L.R.Dolezal@exeter.ac.uk\">Luna Dolezal<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>During the COVID-19 crisis,\u00a0 metaphors of \u201csaving face\u201d, and its corollary \u201closing face\u201d, have emerged as motivating forces that explain the policy decisions of some nation states and organizations. However, an Orientalist tendency to associate \u201cface saving\u201d with Asian countries has led to a pseudo division between countries that rationally \u201cfollow the science\u201d and those that allow emotions about reputation to dictate public health policy.\u00a0In this article, we question the efficacy of such rhetoric when it dictates political interventions in public health policy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkbox\">Further reading:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2020\/05\/26\/saving-face-and-public-health-policy-during-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Saving Face&#8217; and Public Health Policy During COVID-19<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Arthur Rose and\u00a0Luna Dolezal During the COVID-19 crisis,\u00a0 metaphors of \u201csaving face\u201d, and its corollary \u201closing face\u201d, have emerged as motivating forces that explain the policy decisions of some nation states and organizations. However, an Orientalist tendency to associate \u201cface saving\u201d with Asian countries has led to a pseudo division between countries that rationally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[49,285,417],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Saving face\u2019 and public health policy during COVID-19 (Luna Dolezal) - Exploring Society with COVID-19<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/covidsociety\/2020\/06\/07\/saving-face-and-public-health-policy-during-covid-19-luna-dolezal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Saving face\u2019 and public health policy during COVID-19 (Luna Dolezal) - Exploring Society with COVID-19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Arthur Rose and\u00a0Luna Dolezal During the COVID-19 crisis,\u00a0 metaphors of \u201csaving face\u201d, and its corollary \u201closing face\u201d, have emerged as motivating forces that explain the policy decisions of some nation states and organizations. 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