Biosocial Technical Systems: An Emerging Approach to Analyse Responses to Novel Diseases.

Autor:	de Campos AS; School of Applied Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Pedro Zaccaria, 1300, Limeira, SP, CEP 13484-350, Brazil. andre.campos@fca.unicamp.br., Feltrin RB; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz and Department of Science and Technology Policy, Institute of Geosciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Carlos Gomes, 250, Campinas, SP, CEP 13083-855, Brazil., Pamplona da Costa JO; Department of Science and Technology Policy, Institute of Geosciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Carlos Gomes, 250, Campinas, SP, CEP 13083-855, Brazil., Dos Santos PX; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ CEP 21040-900, Brazil., Carvalho G; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ CEP 21040-900, Brazil., de Medeiros MB; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ CEP 21040-900, Brazil., Chagnon P; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ CEP 21040-900, Brazil.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Advances in experimental medicine and biology [Adv Exp Med Biol] 2024; Vol. 1458, pp. 303-313.
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-031-61943-4_20
Abstrakt:	The COVID-19 pandemic emerged in the context of a parallel epidemic of information, namely an infodemic. With the development of vaccines occurring in record time, a disinformation campaign ensued rendering the infodemic ever more troubling. As COVID-19 had to be curbed with vaccines opinion pools and surveys indicated that a minority, but relevant, part of the general public had weakened trust in public health policies and also on governmental responses to the pandemic in general. This dissent in public opinion on pandemic response is interpreted in this chapter as a controversy related to the efficacy and risks associated to vaccines. Such controversy gained momentum partly because traditional scientific communication has been largely unidirectional rather than bi-directional. We propose to apply a novel biosocial technical perspective to examine the COVID-19 pandemic controversy and communication, articulating social, biological and technical issues. The interaction between COVID-19 and vaccines, i.e. artefact-biological interactions, resulted in vaccine development in record time. However, the interaction between social systems and vaccine as artefacts was plagued by partial public reluctance in their acceptance. This rendered communication efforts ever more relevant, bringing lessons related to the importance of a more fluid bi-directional communication in future disease epidemics. (© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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