Tecnologías en tiempos del Covid-19: Un problema de salud global. Las Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI) como actantes sociales en la pandemia, analizadas desde las perspectivas de la Teoría Actor-Red
Thesis
This research takes the Actor-Network Theory (ART) as a theoretical and methodological reference. The objective of this work is to analyze the role of ICUs as social actors within a network of relationships, in the care of the health emergency generated by COVID -19 during the first year of the pandemic in Colombia. This analysis is developed in three sections. The first mentions the key points of the theoretical foundations of ANT that are taken into account for the development of this study; the second describes the historical context of ICUs and their situation prior to the pandemic; and, the third, presents the socio-technical network of the ICUs during the pandemic, as a result of the documentary review of a series of communications and news related to the ICUs in Colombia during the first year of the health emergency, coming from government sources and news media. local and international, all available on the web. So then, the analysis based on these primary documents will be developed empirically, discussing the key points of ANT with the situations exposed in the selected documents. This will allow, in addition to identifying different participants in the network, their roles and the interactions between them, to establish the importance of recognizing the ICUs as a socio-technical network that influences decision-making and policy formulation in the face of the health emergency. There is a need for government entities to recognize ICUs as a socio-technical network in which neither human actors nor technological actors can be left aside and in turn participate with greater agency in the problems identified in the analysis of the interactions between the different actors, especially with those related to human actants as members of the socio-technical network to guarantee its proper functioning and access to health services and technologies for the entire population, both in normal situations such as in health crises.
