Irina V.Dudenkova. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences; 3/5, Gazetny lane, Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation;

e-mail: irinafild@gmail.com

The article focuses on the crisis of judgment during the pandemic. This crisis is twofold: inadequacy of common sense for interpreting the imperatives of containment policies and the impossibility to bind universal and individual within the framework of a medical diagnosis. During pandemic medical and sanitary expertise mitigated accounts of patients as “wounded storytellers”. This paper addresses the problem of making judgment under extraordinary circumstances against the background of contemporary philosophy, social theory and medical anthropology.

Keywords: COVID-19, judgment, common sense, hermeneutics, narrative of diseases, testimony

DOI: 10.22394/978-5-93255-592-7_6