In “ Pandemopolitics », Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Izambert and Pierre-André Juven explains how the pandemic opens a political breach to think about another sorting, reinventing our health according to other priorities: social, ecological, democratic.
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- Presentation of the book by its publisher:
« We didn’t have to do the terrible triage of the sick », could we hear in the spring of 2020. But are we so sure ?
Far from being an extraordinary gesture, triage is in fact an integral part of the fields of medicine and health. However, the Sars-CoV-2 crisis showed that clinical triage was only one of the dimensions and consequences of a systemic triage shaped by neoliberal policies and a health technocracy that has long neglected health. public.
The essential thing is therefore not so much to know if we sort or not as to choose collectively the methods of triage and to define democratically the priorities of our health system. Alternative experiences are remembered to us and draw different horizons, from the renewal of community health to the potential of the commons, including the emergence of an ecological triage. The pandemic opens a political breach to think about another sorting, reinventing our health according to other priorities: social, ecological, democratic. The Sars-CoV-2 crisis is therefore much more than a health crisis. She is a pandemopolitical event.
Jean-Paul Gaudillière, science historian, is director of research at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM). Caroline Izambert is a doctor ofEHESS and works for the association for the fight against AIDS and hepatitis AIDES. Pierre-André Juven is a sociologist, researcher at CNRS and member of Cermes3.
- Pandemopolitics, reinventing health together, by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Izambert and Pierre-André Juven, La Découverte editions, January 2021, 224 p., € 15.
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