COVID-19 and Social Control

• Authors: James J. Chriss

Abstracts

EN

The COVID-19 pandemic has once again brought into relief and tension the delicate balancing act modern governments must strike in assuring individual liberties of its citizens, while at the same time dealing with infectious diseases and other public health risks. It is not clear how best to strike this balance, or how to judge which countries are doing an adequate job and which others are failing (on either or both fronts). What is clear, however, is that by virtue of it being available to the state, public health is based not merely on medical expertise but also on power, insofar as it part of the regulative apparatus of the administrative state which can be implemented by decree at the behest of the executive

Keywords

EN

pandemic; public health; social control; law and politics; administrative law; separation of powers; Max Weber; Talcott Parsons; paradigms; knowledge and interests; Giorgio Agamben; history of medicine; Jürgen Habermas

• Publisher: Academicus. International Scientific Journal publishing house
• Journal: Academicus. International Scientific Journal
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 23
• Pages: 21-40

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

James J. Chriss

• Department of Sociology and Criminology, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA

• https://orcid.org/0000000267267290

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7336/academicus.2021.23.02

Biblioteka Nauki

1968701