Smart, Mobile and powerful - Drones in Epidemiology

La tecnologización de la vigilancia

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2019-0012

Keywords:

drones, epidemiology, biosecurity, syndromic surveillance, dispositive, Foucault

Abstract

This article wants to study drones as a new dispositive of bio-surveillance. The extension and speed of the expansion of infective diseases in a globalised society in which local outbreaks can quickly affect society all over the world makes new forms of bio-surveillance necessary. We have discovered in drones a new bio-dispositive that despite providing new forms and techniques of control reshapes the lines between sick and healthy and between subjects of control and others. In order to analyse the new role of drones, the article will take a look into the past and reflect on the impact of drones in global bio-surveillance, evaluating the opportunities and risks of this new dispositive of power in the field of surveillance.

Author Biographies

Marco Maureira, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Dep. Psicologia social. Doctorando.

Sween Seebach, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Departamento de psicologia social, becario Juan de la Cierva. Doctor en Sociologia.

Pedro Torrejón Cano, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Dep. Psicologia social. Doctorando.

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En línea:
http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2015/06/10/project-premonition-mosquitoes-drones-cloud-computing/#sm.00000zdbjgjz3jdl0xxmvmdrfl90l
http://web.ua.es/es/actualidad-universitaria/2015/noviembre2015/noviembre2015-1-8/investigadores-de-la-universidad-de-alicante-disenan-drones-de-segunda-generacion.html

Published

2019-08-23

How to Cite

Maureira, M., Seebach, S., & Torrejón Cano, P. (2019). Smart, Mobile and powerful - Drones in Epidemiology: La tecnologización de la vigilancia. Estudios Atacameños, (62), 203-211. https://doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2019-0012

Issue

No. 62 (2019)

Section

Dossier Biociudadanía

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