Article ID: CBB679456149

Biopolitics and speculative objects in Chilean health projects (2023)

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‘Biopolitics’ is a much-used concept in recent academic literature. One of its main fields of application is in the analysis of public health projects. This article analyses the national Explicit Health Guarantees project in Chile from that perspective. However, we criticize the standard invocation of ‘biopolitics’ by observing that such public health projects require technoscientific operations that establish truths and regimes of obligation for the groups involved -understanding regime both as a set of imposed orders and a set of regulated processes. Specifically, the Explicit Health Guarantees project defines what we call ‘speculative objects’. These have two characteristics: (a) They relate highly diverse entities into integrated wholes that are and involve objects of knowledge and uncertainty, and (b) this integration creates regimes of obligation considered as scientific truths on many different groups. We conclude by proposing new questions about the notion of biopolitics and its relationship with uncertainty and speculation.

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Authors & Contributors
Ureta, Sebastián
Asdal, Kristin
Brown, Philip C.
Knaapen, Loes
Kruse, Corinna
Léna, Pierre
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Publishers
Springer International Publishing
Concepts
Science and technology studies (STS)
Certainty; uncertainty
Biopolitics
Public health
Medicine
Ethnography
People
Margulis, Lynn
Whitehead, Alfred North
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Chile
Great Britain
Mexico
Austria
China
Europe
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