The caring revolution? How humanities redefine the concept of health.
Tuesday, 20 April 2021 , Olot
The caring revolution? How humanities redefine the concept of health.
In recent years, the concept of care has become central to many areas of research such as sociology, politics, geography, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and gender studies, among others. Both care and health adapt to the cultural context and the historical moment, they are not stable but dynamic, as are human relationships and needs; they recognize their interrelation hence one appears as a guarantee of the other in a broad sense. We can speak of a shift in the centrality of the debates, or we can call it “the caring revolution”; in any case, what we see is the clustering of a set of social, economic and political demands together with values such as solidarity and social justice under the term care. In this sense, humanities can play an important role in the understanding of both concepts of care and health.