Poder mundial y salud. Comparación histórica de pandemias de gripe. Los casos de 1918-19 y 2009-10
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Henao-Kaffure, Liliana
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La tesis que sostenemos en este escrito, y que llevamos a términos breves y precisos en esta sección, es que conceptos y fenómenos problemáticos de la Salud Pública, similares a los rela-cionados con las pandemias de gripe, pueden y deben ser comprendidos y explicados como procesos del orden humano; esto es, como procesos de varios dominios sociales, escalas es-paciales y duraciones del tiempo histórico, que se configuran en las relaciones mundiales de poder, propias de los humanos, y que son, en consecuencia, susceptibles de ser transformados. Emprender este ejercicio intelectual puede y debe iluminar el camino de la acción, aunque también sus obstáculos. Nos referimos a esta comprensión como perspectiva histórico-crítica, y a su categoría central como proceso de configuración.
Abstract: The thesis we support in this work, and that we summarize succinctly and precisely in this section, is that Public Health's problematic concepts and phenomena, similar to the ones re-lated to the flu pandemics, can and should be understood and explained as human order pro-cesses; as such, processes of various social domains, spatial scales and historical time dura-tions, which are configured in to the worldwide power relationships, proper to humans; and that are, consequently, susceptible to be transformed. Undertaking this intellectual exercise can and should illuminate the path of action, as well as its obstacles. We refer to this compre-hension as historic-critic perspective and to its central category as configuration process.
Abstract: The thesis we support in this work, and that we summarize succinctly and precisely in this section, is that Public Health's problematic concepts and phenomena, similar to the ones re-lated to the flu pandemics, can and should be understood and explained as human order pro-cesses; as such, processes of various social domains, spatial scales and historical time dura-tions, which are configured in to the worldwide power relationships, proper to humans; and that are, consequently, susceptible to be transformed. Undertaking this intellectual exercise can and should illuminate the path of action, as well as its obstacles. We refer to this compre-hension as historic-critic perspective and to its central category as configuration process.