Abstract:

Global epidemics have had devastating impacts as effective as natural disasters and wars during the history of humanity. The way of implementing health policies has come to the fore in the fight against epidemics causing serious economic and political crisis. The health of human and society and, accordingly, the social welfare are also governed according to the ideology of the ones in power. At this point, Foucault’s concept of bio-politics comes to mind. The aim of achieving economic interest by transforming human body into a political strategy tool still continue in this neo-liberal period, especially in conducting health policies. Today, the COVID-19 Pandemic possibly to have serious global cost in the future requires us to question the political, economic and sociologic systems over bio-politics again. This pandemic caused by a new virus has also interrupted people’s daily routines and socio-economic relations of societies. In this period when the health sector is at the forefront for recovering from this pandemic, this paper aims at discussing health policies over bio-politics.

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