The three crossroads for critical thinking in health
Gonzalo Basile1
SARS-CoV-2 in Latin America and the Caribbean
Thinking about the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic involves studying both general and specific dimensions of the historical development of Latin America and the Caribbean. This includes examining the individual and the collective, the biomedical sciences, the social sciences, and public health, as well as risk groups, exclusionary societies, and the inequalities inherent in the colonial, patriarchal, and modern capitalist legacy of the state and society. The objective of this article is to review what are termed the three crossroads for Latin American critical thought on health. It seeks to analyze and reflect on the assumptions and logics present in the response to the health emergency, specifically regarding:
1. Critical theory in health and its intersections with Latin American critical thought;
2. The decolonial implications of problematizing the State and public health systems, and
3. The geopolitics of global health security as a roadmap for the Global North.
Approaches are outlined regarding the risks of accelerating post-pandemic disaster capitalism and alternative ways of addressing creative tensions in the reconstruction of emancipatory processes for regional health sovereignty and Health from the South.
1- Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Dominican Republic, International Health Program. Co-coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group on International Health and Health Sovereignty. Article published in ABRASCO Journal – September 2020.
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