Abstract

ACOSTA SARIEGO, José Ramón. Bioethical and biopolitical challenges revealed by COVID-19 pandemic. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2020, vol.46, suppl.1  Epub Nov 20, 2020. ISSN 1561-3127.

COVID-19 pandemic has shown in all its harshness the bankruptcies, vulnerabilities, injustice and inequalities affecting the contemporary social, cultural and political framework. Once more, it has been exposed that individual and collective health’s determinants easily overtake the scope of sanitary organization. COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed an ethical debate on conflicts of moral values and dilemmas in the micro and macro-ethical levels that already existed, but they have now showed unusual intensity. Thus, the present article is focused in the analysis of the effects and consequences of COVID-19 pandemic from the bioethical and biopolitical perspectives. For this, it is analysed the international context where this transmissible disease arose, the edges of the bio-ethical debate related to it, and the immoral, non-conventional war against Cuba in COVID-19 times. It is concluded that COVID-19 has marked a turning point for the historical development of humankind, because it has fostered a deep reflection on its destiny and the dilemma it has between the transit to a responsible and solidarity world, more focused in human wellbeing and less centered in numbers of the markets; and more given to cooperation and less to confrontations; or, on the other hand, to follow the opposite track to the intensification of authoritarianism, robbery and unilateralism.

Keywords : COVID-19; bioethics; biopolitics; public health´s ethics; health policies.

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