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<journal-id>0864-3466</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista Cubana de Salud Pública]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev Cubana Salud Pública]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0864-3466</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Editorial Ciencias Médicas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0864-34662020000500011</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Los desafíos bioéticos y biopolíticos develados por la pandemia COVID-19]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Bioethical and biopolitical challenges revealed by COVID-19 pandemic]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Acosta Sariego]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[José Ramón]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[La Habana ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>46</volume>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0864-34662020000500011&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0864-34662020000500011&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0864-34662020000500011&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN La pandemia COVID-19 ha mostrado en toda su crudeza las falencias, vulnerabilidades, injusticias y desigualdades que aquejan al entramado económico, social, cultural y político contemporáneo. Una vez más ha quedado expuesto que los determinantes de la salud individual y colectiva rebasan ampliamente el ámbito de la organización sanitaria. La pandemia COVID-19 ha catalizado un debate ético sobre conflictos de valores morales y dilemas a nivel micro y macroético que ya existía, pero que ahora ha cobrado inusitada intensidad De ahí que el presente artículo se centre en el análisis de los efectos y consecuencias de la pandemia COVID-19 desde la perspectiva de la bioética y la biopolítica. Para ello se analizan el contexto internacional donde eclosionó esta enfermedad transmisible, las aristas del debate bioético en torno a ella y la inmoral guerra no convencional contra Cuba en tiempos de la COVID-19. Se concluye que la COVID-19 ha marcado un punto de inflexión para el desarrollo histórico de la humanidad, porque ha propiciado una profunda reflexión sobre su destino y la disyuntiva que tiene ante sí, entre el tránsito hacia un mundo responsable y solidario, más centrado en el bienestar humano y menos pendiente de las cifras de los mercados, más proclive a la cooperación y menos propenso a la confrontación; o por el contrario seguir un derrotero opuesto hacia el recrudecimiento del autoritarismo, la rapiña y el unilateralismo.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT 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&#8217;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.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[bioética]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[biopolítica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[ética de la salud pública]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[políticas de salud]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[COVID-19]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[bioethics]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[biopolitics]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[public health´s ethics]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[health policies]]></kwd>
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