The social determination of health and the transformation of rights and ethics: a meta-critical methodology for responsible and reparative science
- Authors
- Breilh Paz y Miño, Jaime Eduardo
- Format
- Article
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
The hyper-neoliberal era has seen the collapse of the ethos of life and the formation of a civilisation of extreme greed. In this global context, the preeminence of a technologically endowed but epistemologically and ethically misguided form of science has contributed to forms of ‘scientific illiteracy’ and strategies of planned ignorance that nourish a neo-conservative form of governance. The challenge of transforming the paradigm of bioethics and the right to health beyond the biomedical horizon is an urgent priority. Building on the strengths of a social determination approach and a meta-critical methodology and rooted in critical epidemiology, this essay proposes powerful tools for a radical shift in thought and action linked to rights and ethics. Together, medicine, public health, and collective health provide a path forward to reform ethics and advance the rights of humans and nature.
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- EPISTEMOLOGÍA CRÍTICA
BIOÉTICA
SALUD PÚBLICA
CULTURA
DERECHOS HUMANOS
- Repository
- Repositorio Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
- Get full text
- http://hdl.handle.net/10644/9378
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional