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Title: | The epidemiological factor: A genealogy of the link between medicine and politics |
Author: | Maureira, Marco Tirado, Francisco Torrejon Cano, Pedro Baleriola, Enrique |
Abstract: | From the beginning of our civilization, the existence of infectious and contagious diseases required a search for solutions for both an individual and medical-health problem, and political interventions that involve a territory and population that must be managed. In this respect, epidemiology constitutes a strategic dimension in analysing the complex relationships established between scientific conduct and the political management of a territory. With this focus, we will provide a short historic genealogy of the links established between medicine and politics in European societies since the 18th century. From this, we should be able to see a movement from the concepts of healthiness/unhealthiness common to the ‘public hygiene’ managed by the 19th-century nation-state, towards the imperative of ‘public health’ operating with the ‘global health’ concept promoted by our current global institutions. |
Keywords: | biosecurity clinic epidemiology political scales techno-science |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877917702442 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion |
Issue Date: | 2-Sep-2018 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles cientÍfics Articles |
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