Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy of Science and Technology, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies
Abstract
The unpreparedness to deal with the Corona pandemic and the inadequacy of interventions
and measures to control that world has created a critical situation. In this article based on
biopolitical analytics, I want to show why we stand at this point and that unpreparedness
and inadequacy have rooted in the structure of the epidemic (objects, sciences, and
institutions). In this analysis, I will focus on the objects, sciences and institutions related to
the structure of the epidemic and scrutinize how the structure of the epidemic has caused
invisibility of objects such as the city, citizenship and society, which has led to the
hiddenness of the related sciences and institutions. Medicalization of the health and the
priority of epidemiology have been the result of this historical process. It seems that the
revival of urban medicine and serious attention to health humanities as a potential link
between biomedical sciences, politics and society can open up new horizons.
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