ISSN: 2639-2038
Authors: Turabian JL*
Epidemiology can benefit by allowing it to be the object of analysis of sociology ("sociology of epidemiology"). The institution of epidemiology shapes the motives, passions and social relationships of scientists. To understand the meaning and structure of the epidemiological experience, it must be framed in the history of the institutions in which its organizing efforts have been manifested. The epidemiological study of the epidemics (smallpox, along with measles, typhus, leprosy or yellow fever) influenced the power relations between the dominant minority and the dominated majority. The epidemiological and medical elite (obviously in relation to the rulers) were the ones who determined the official response to the disease. Epidemiological measures taken during an epidemic posed more threats to the expectations of ordinary people than the epidemic itself. Since the beginning of the 20th century, epidemiology has been an instrument designed to allow white races to inhabit and exploit all areas of the earth. His basis was in social Darwinism. Diseases (epidemics and non-communicable chronic diseases and so-called risk factors) were not studied epidemiologically in different cultural, temporal and spatial contexts. In summary, the disease has been at the service of the dominant power; The arguments of epidemiology must be qualified by sociological evidence.
Keywords: Sociology; Socialization; Epidemiology; Sociology, Framework; Public Health; Political Motivation; Social Influence; Social Power; Policy; Power Relations.
