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0163/2020 - Interfaces and “Silver Bullets”: Technologies and Policies
As Interfaces e as “Balas de Prata”: Tecnologias e Políticas

Author:

• Reinaldo Guimarães - Guimarães, R - <reinaldo.guimaraes47@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0138-9594


Abstract:

The paper discusses two ways of understanding a complex sanitary process, as the pandemics envolving SARS–CoV-2. It supports that the simplification of the whole proccess to the point of considering it just a consequence of a contact between a pathogen and a susceptible human being usually weakens the effectiveness of the mitigation strategies. It emphasizes the importance of taking into account the importance of the interfaces which take part in the pandemic proccess and to consider them as structural variables. In consequence, it criticizes the notion of a “silver bullet” – usually an industrial health product – which were able to bring the pandemic to a happy end. In order to develop that point of view, the text focuses on the interfaces between industrial technologies and some policy constraints that impairs population access to those products.

Keywords:

Policies; Health Planning and Management; Science, Technology and Society; Epidemiology; Collective Health

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