Abstract
This is a theoretical study with the aim of evaluating the role of telemedicine (and similar) in the health work process, with emphasis on the particular context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship with uberization processes. A bibliographical research was carried out within the scope of the sociology of work with a Marxist bias, in order to specify the structural processes that produce this particular way of organizing health work. Subsequently, legal documents and news about the situation of the pandemic were analyzed, with a view to describing how telemedicine is situated in this context and then submitting it to the scrutiny of Marx’s social theory. It was found that this way of organizing health work consists in a way of increasing work precarization, now called uberization, developed under the subordination mediation of digital platforms to the interests of capital, in convergence with the biomedical model.
Keywords:
Covid-19; telemedicine; work precarization; health work; uberization