Article ID: CBB689255536

Political epistemology of pandemic management (2021)

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Today, claims about the contiguity of health management and societal organization bring biopolitical concerns to the forefront. This essay offers historical-political insights on the COVID-19 pandemic, which are particularly urgent, as both the temporal and the cultural-political dimensions have been insufficiently considered in current debates. After introducing our specific political-epistemological approach, we delve into the entanglements of medical expertise, economic interests, surveillance politics, and diplomatic relations in the past in order to shed light on the present. Additionally, we address the limitations of Italian theory’s biopolitica, namely its idle radicalization of critical views on medical politics inspired by French épistémologie historique. We conclude with a call to scientists’ responsibility in consideration of the societal embedment of their activity. Yet, the task of an emancipated science is not only in their hands but depends on our collective capacity to organically connect their work to the renewal of the body politics at large.

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Authors & Contributors
Simonutti, Luisa
Fernando Rosa
Abril Saldaña-Tejeda
Mathieu Arminjon
Marion-Veyron, Régis
Xyoli Pérez-Campos
Concepts
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Pandemics
Public health
Medicine and society
Medicine and politics
Epidemics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
Places
India
Italy
France
China
Asia
Mexico
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