A Political Conception of Pandemics and Epidemics in Africa

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with extra-biological, extra-medical or extra-health factors, namely actions and inactions (commissions and omissions) that are morally unjust-that is, which are moral injustice-which ultimately cause, enable or contribute to pandemics and epidemics in Africa. Therefore, although this chapter is dealing with health, the framework of the chapter is neither biological nor medical, but political. This is what is referred to in the chapter as a political conception of pandemics and epidemics. The contention of the chapter is that the interactional and institutional failure to conform to the communal basic structure of society (assuming the communal basic structure is itself just and not unjust) causes, enables or contributes to pandemics and epidemics in Africa.

Socıal Self Perceptıon And Its Results Created By Age Dıscrımınatıon In Elderly Indıvıduals Durıng The Pandemıc Process

“…Genel anlamda pandeminin toplumsal etkileri ile ilgili olarak son 15 yılda pandemi döneminde sivil toplum (White & Banda, 2009), pandemi ve kentleşme ilişkisi (Zachreson vd., 2018), pandemi ve sosyal evrim (Spinney, 2019), pandemi ve siyaset (Abumere, 2019), pandemi ve bilim (Maw, 2006;Stephens, 2005) konularında çalışmalar yapıldığı görülmektedir. COVID-19 pandemisi toplumsal yaşamı dönüştürürken sosyal bilimler literatüründe de araştırmacılar pandeminin toplumsal sonuçlarını çalışmaya başlamıştır.…”