The Necropolitics of COVID-19: Will the COVID-19 pandemic reshape national healthcare systems? 18/05/2020
Robertson, Hamish ; Travaglia, Joanne
London School of Economics and Political Science
LSE - London
2020
Medicine - Toxicology - Health
English
"The COVID-19 pandemic has made necropolitics – the politics of life and death – unavoidable . Drawing on the work of Achille Mbembe, Hamish Robertson and Joanne Travaglia argue that, as in previous crises, COVID-19 reveals many of the hidden assumptions underpinning national healthcare systems. As the current crisis continues to bring these assumptions into the mainstream and disrupts business as usual, they suggest that COVID-19 points towards opportunities to reshape the relationship of society to its most vulnerable members."
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