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Forgotten Wisdoms of the Croatian Mediterranean Past: Heritage Delights and Dangers in the Context of 2020 COVID-19 - Intertwining Some Multidiciplinary Debates

Regardless of the restrictive directives of the world’s most powerful culture broker and tourist patroniser, such as UNESCO, Croatia was successful in entering the 2013 world’s Heritage intangible list with 14 cultural domains worth safeguarding. The public health system that has been dealing with epidemics since 13th century Dubrovnik (Grmek, 1980, 1996 ; Blažina and Blažina, 2008) to the 2020 Corona virus was not one of them. With a plethora of factography, the analysis of this paper encompasses major global issues regarding today’s treating of cultures where cultural paradigms are abused in the service off elite- driven competitive global concepts (Matta, 2016), including their capacity for dealing with pandemics. It further analyses the continuing issue of Croatia’s ©tamparian health system dismantlement of over three decades (©poljar Vr.ina, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2020) in which the history of Croatian medicine became almost obsolete in its power to be presented to the world as a path-breaking system in which solidarity, specific knowledges of its professionals and humanity of all its people were (and are) intertwined and not divisible into classifications, lists and conglomerates of monetary instrumentalized cultural values. If today’s only comparison that can be drawn is the geographical potential of a Croatian site for a Hollywood mega hit (Vis, “Mamma Mia!” 2, 2017), it should also be known as a global site prepared for Corona virus outbreaks. Especially in view of the fact that the island Vis, as much of Croatia’s natural “beauty”, encompasses caves with over 10 bat species (one of the main vectors of the virus, Zhou et al., 2020) and a timeline of its people’s capability of answering the pandemic quest, both professionally and ethically. Yet no official list is interested in such a complex heritage, which remains to be further contested.

COVID-19 pandemic ; Štamparian medicine ; Grmek’s pathocenosis ; Blažina’s Chazamorbi ; complex heritage

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