The metamorphosis of the crisis

Abstract

The awareness that we are currently living a triple crisis – health, economic and social – caused by the pandemic, invites us to revisit the original meaning of the Greek archetype krisis which, in the disruption it announces, expresses both a sudden discontinuity with what is known and familiar, and also an opportunity for change, to build a better future. The metamorphosis of the crisis stimulates a set of texts committed to the history of pandemics and the ethical, legal and social consequences that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic brought to the entire planet, especially in terms of ethical decisions, public policies, from a human rights perspective. This editorial discusses the problems developed in this volume, based on reflections from various Continents and from different discursive horizons: History, Law, Philosophy, Medicine, Social Sciences and Health Policies, in a work that aims to implement a bioethical reflection as an inter- and transdisciplinary.