From Control to Biomonitoring:
Life as its Own Sentinel
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https://doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2019-0003Keywords:
biosurveillance, biomonitorization, Early Warning Systems, epidemics, controlAbstract
Implementation of so-called Early Warning Systems (EWS) had grown exponentially from its birth in the mid-twentieth century. That growth has been in number, sophistication and application realms (earthquakes, floods, global warming, hurricanes...). This paper analyses the use of Early Warning Systems in the contemporary logics of biosurveillance. In order to do this, we will offer an analysis of documentary material and images, both pertaining to the study case focused on epidemics and biosecurity we conducted for three years. The aim is to illustrate the features of the contemporary biosurveillance logics. Finally, we will conclude by saying that in these logics of biosurveillance are brewing a profound change in the way life is monitored. We have called it biomonitorization: life is no longer just passive and controlled by different devices; now, it also plays an active, surveilling and monitorizing role. Then, citizens become biocitizens.
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Davis, M., Flowers, P., Lohm, D., Waller, E. y Stephenson, N. (2016). Immunity, Biopolitics and Pandemics: Public and Individual Responses to the Threat to Life. Body and Society, 22(4), 130-154.
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Animal & Plant Health Agency Veterinary & Science Policy Advice Team. (2001). International Disease Monitoring. Updated Outbreak Assessment Update on Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Europe, America and the Middle East.
Domènech, M. y Tirado, F. (2011). Ciencia, Tecnología y Ciudadanía: La Cosmopolítica y la Reinvención de la Democracia. En González de la Fe, T. y López Peláez, A. (Coords.). Innovación, conocimiento científico y cambio social. Ensayos de sociología ibérica de la ciencia y la tecnología. Madrid: CIS.
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Fearnley, L. (2008). Signals come and go: syndromic surveillance and styles of biosecurity. Environment and Planning A, 40, 1615-1632
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Foucault, M. (2002). Vigilar y Castigar. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI.
Foucault, M. (2007). El Nacimiento de la Biopolítica. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica de Argentina.
Gomm, R., Hammersley, M. y Foster, P. (2000). Case Study Method. London: SAGE.
Gowler, D., Legge, K. y Clegg, C. (1993). Case studies in organizational behaviour and Human Resource Management. British Journal of Industrial relations, 12, 614-615.
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2012). Community Early Warning Systems. Guiding Principles. Geneva: IFRC.
Keck, F. (2014). From purgatory to sentinel: ‘Forms/Events’ in the field of zoonoses. Climate Histories and Environmental Change, 32(1), 47-61.
Keck, F. (2015). Feeding Sentinels: Logics of Care and Biosecurity in Farms and Labs. Biosocieties, 10(2), 162-176.Lakoff, A. (2009). Swine Flu and the Preparedness Apparatus. Newcastle: Keele University.
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Lakoff, A. (2015). Real-time biopolitics: the actuary and the sentinel in global public health. Economy and Society, 44(1), 40-59.
Langmuir, A. (1963). The Surveillance of Communicable Diseases of National Importance. New England Journal of Medicine, 268, 182-192.
Leal-Nieto, O., Dimech, G., Libel, M., Oliveira, W. y Ferreira, J. (2016). Digital Disease Detection and Participatory Surveillance: Overviews and Perspectives for Brazil. Revista de Saúde Pública, 50(17), 1-5
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Ong, A. (2006). Mutations in Citizenship. Theory, Culture and Society, 23(2-3), 499-531.
Parry, B. (2012). Domesticating biosurveillance: ‘containment’ and the politics of bioinformation. Health & Place, 18(4), 718-725.
Pengel, B., Krzhizhanovskaya, V., Melnikova, N., Shirshov, G., Koelewijn, A., Pyayt, A. y Mokhov, I. (2013). Flood Early Warning System: Sensors And Internet. International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 357, 445-453.
Petryna, A. (2004). Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations. Osiris, 19(2), 250-265.
Rabinow, P., Rose, N. (2006). Biopower Today. BioSocieties, 1, 195-217.
Rose, N. (2007). The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century. United Kingdom: Princeton University Press.
Samimian-Darash, L. (2009). A pre-event configuration for biological threats: preparedness and the constitution of biosecurity events. American Ethnologist, 36(3), 478-491.
Samimian-Darash, L. (2011). Governing through time: preparing for future threats to health security. Sociology of Health & Illness, 33(6), 930-945.
Serres, M. (1995). Atlas. Madrid: Cátedra.Serres, M. (2002). Los Cinco Sentidos. México D.F.: Taurus.Shoemaker, P. (1995). Scenario Planning: A Tool for Strategic Thinking. Sloan Management Review, Winter, 25-40.
Stake, R. (1995). The Art of Case Study Research. London: Sage.
Stewart, A. y Lowe, R. (2011). El Niño-Southern Oscillation and dengue early warning in Ecuador. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 60th Annual Meeting. Recuperado de http://www.ic3.cat/detail_publication.php?menu=98&publication=205
Tirado, F., Baleriola, E., Amaral Giordani, M. Do A., Giordani, T. y Torrejón, P. (2014). Subjetividad y subjetivadores en las tecnologías de bioseguridad en la Unión Europea. Polis e Psique, 4(3), 23-50.
United Nations Environment Programme (2012). Early Warning Systems A State of the Art Analysis and Future Directions.
Virilio, P. (2006). Speed and Politics. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e).
Woodside, A. (2010). Case Study Research. Theory, Methods, Practice. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
World Health Organization (2004a). Weekly Epidemiological Record, 16(79), 153-160.
World Health Organization (2004b). Setting up an Early Warning System for epidemic prone diseases in humanitarian crisis Darfur region Sudan. Recuperado de http://www.who.int/csr/labepidemiology/projects/darfurewarn.pdf?ua=1
World Health Organization (2014). Ebola Strategy. Ebola and Marburg virus disease epidemics: preparedness, alert, control, and evaluation. Recuperado de http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/130160/1/WHO_HSE_PED_CED_2014.05_eng.pdf?ua=1
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Baleriola Escudero, E., & Tirado Serrano, F. (2019). From Control to Biomonitoring:: Life as its Own Sentinel. Estudios atacameños, 62, 185-201. https://doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2019-0003
