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#biopolitics

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Why does queering of medicine matter, for equitable and innovative healthcare and science? Tıp ve sağlık sektörünün kuirleşmesi niçin gerekli?

Because health is inherently #political and #queer

Queering questions, firstly and before diagnosing a disease or someone as 'sick', how health and 'normal' are defined through #biopolitics, by whom, to what ends, and thus, advances planetary health and democracies around the world.

#kuir#saglik#health
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For systems medicine, we also need social theory, queer theory, historiography, and political determinants - the causes of causes - for disease, health and well-being.

Think of who is making the decisions on healthcare and what is 'normal' and 'standard'; why, when, how, where, and to what ends? Who is excluded? Who is glorified, and why?

On systems medicine, planetary #health and #biopolitics

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Health is inherently political and #queer which calls for systems thinking, and thinking at the interstices.

To achieve healthcare based on systems medicine, and to recognize the complexity, liminality, biopolitics and queerness of health and illness, engineering and biotechnology are useful but largely insufficient.

Biopolitics
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopol

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault

A truth-telling exhibition
Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience

"Our artwork and culture is somehow revered on the international stage and high enough for an exchange at that level, but yet, we're the most incarcerated people on the planet.”

"Since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Indigenous incarceration rates have more than doubled, and deaths in custody have continued to rise."

"It's a huge stain on this nation...White Australia's support is crucial."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-06-02/bla
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #Australia #violence #incarceration #HyperIncarceration #biopolitics #necropolitics #TruthTelling #art

ABC News · Blak In-Justice exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art is 'a wake-up call'By Kate Mulqueen

Guest article by Professor Eric Rodríguez #Ochoa: “A critical #reflection on the interface between #bioethics and #biopolitics in the #age of #biopower

We both share a fondness for #discourse analysis and the #concept of power by #Michel #Foucault.
I was interested in this topic because for me it sheds a whole new light on the questions of #ethics for #artificial #intelligence.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

Guest article by Professor Eric Rodríguez #Ochoa: “A critical #reflection on the interface between #bioethics and #biopolitics in the #age of #biopower

We both share a fondness for #discourse analysis and the #concept of power by #Michel #Foucault.
I was interested in this topic because for me it sheds a whole new light on the questions of #ethics for #artificial #intelligence.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

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"Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
[…]
• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
• The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
• In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."

Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti

@histodons 🧶

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"As signaled by the nomination of conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer RFK, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Trump administration may restrict access to vaccines and other proven methods of disease prevention, knowing this sets the stage for the U.S. population to be more susceptible to illness and in the long run less productive and prosperous."

#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #biopolitics #healthcare #CDC #NIH #vaccines #pandemic #fascism
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