Feminist public health, another view on the pandemic.

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Abstract

Theorists of care ethics and policies, with their analyzes in a feminist and intersectional key, have been trying for decades to leave their mark on clinical practice and political structures . In them, extensive processes of humanization of the relationship between professionals and people who need their care are required, without leaving aside inequalities due to gender, social class or belonging to vulnerable minority groups that go through experiences of health and illness in the society. It is evident that our institutions must be widely rethought in their foundations; from nursing homes to highly technological ICUs; from the saturation of primary care to the lack of specialized personnel. In areas such as nursing, great emphasis is placed on models based on interdependence and the particular context to generate another framework of assistance, while at the same time fighting for hierarchies and invisibilities related to highly feminized professions. It is not in vain that the reflections that follow are signed by three women with hybrid profiles who have dedicated part of our working lives to the field of primary and hospital care (both in nursing and physiotherapy) and, in turn, to research and teaching. in bioethics, philosophy and humanities. We have experienced firsthand the contradictions between a will to serve and some axes of oppression inherent to institutions.