La sindemia como campo de reflexión de la bioética social

Humanity has lived through various epidemics and pandemics, that of covid-19 has been especially shocking, perhaps because we did not expect that in a world like ours, where we enjoy so many scientific and technological advances, from one moment to another our securities will be threatened by a virus, and that it also happened on a global scale with such force. This scenario, which at first seemed to be only clinical, quickly unleashed other problems that indicated that taking care of life is not only thinking about health, that in reality our life is complex and that we have countless relationships and interactions that we need and that go beyond our biological body, which led us to speak of syndemia. Social Bioethics, for its part, as a theoretical development is barely gaining space in the academy, although the intuition that Bioethics is not only clinical has always been present, it still needs to consolidatemore social reflection, without this dimension necessarily passing to be read from Biopolitics, a temptation that usually arises. In this presentation we want to propose the syndemic as one of the scenarios that are opened for the reflection of social Bioethics and the contributions that it can give in the search for interdisciplinary solutions.