From the magnitude of the crisis to the human complexity

In the amidst of the current crisis aroused by the emergence of an unprecedented virus that has already reached global presence, the need for science to offer alternatives to reduce the effects of the virus on the population and to find a vaccine in the medium term is more than obvious. For this reason, thousands of academic articles on the subject have been published in publishing houses of international reach, such as Elsevier or Clarivate, where studies with a health sciences approach are stored. In light of a threat to life, the importance of science is almost always proven. Nonetheless, the same doesn’t happen with humanities or social sciences, and in a world that privileges the accumulation of wealth, power, the fight towards mass mobilization, and pragmatic actions, the reflection on the human can be disqualified under the “usefulness” criterion. In fact, it would seem that in light of the pandemic humanities are being put aside even more.