Within Reason

A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

A provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots.The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health—a volatile combination that produced predictably bad results. As scientific expertise became entangled with political motivations, the public-health establishment found itself mired in political encampment. It was, as Sandro Galea argues, a crisis of liberalism: a retreat from the principles of free speech, open debate, and the pursuit of knowledge through reasoned inquiry that should inform the work of public health. Across fifty essays, Within Reason chronicles how public health became enmeshed in the insidious social trends that accelerated under Covid-19. Galea challenges this intellectual drift towards intolerance and absolutism while showing how similar regressions from reason undermined social progress during earlier eras. Within Reason builds an incisive case for a return to critical, open inquiry as a guiding principle for the future public health we want—and a future we must work to protect.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-12-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:367 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226822914

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Mer om författaren

Sandro Galea is the dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is the author of several books, including The Contagion Next Time and Well: What We Need to Talk about When We Talk about Health.

Recensioner i media

"Despite remarkable successes, Galea argues, public health succumbed to a disturbing strain of illiberalism during the pandemic. . . .Galea makes a powerful case that to carry the worst illiberal outcomes from the pandemic into the next crisis would be a devastating mistake."

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionFoundationsWhat Stories Will We Tell about COVID-19?Liberty and Health?FearThe Economics of IlliberalismHow to Get Healthier and Wealthier during a CrisisDecision-Making in an Age of Social MediaBorders in an Age of PandemicsUFOs, COVID-19, and the Return of Radical UncertaintyWhy Do We Tell the Stories We Tell?The History of Soccer, the Butterfly Effect, and Public HealthThe Ongoing Challenge of RaceNot in the Name of Public HealthHealth and the Opportunity to Think FreelyThinking in Groups or Thinking for Ourselves: In Praise of IconoclasmThe Challenge of Slow-Burning ThreatsThe Ineluctable Role of the Faceless BureaucratSectarianism and the Public’s HealthHealth in an Era of Resurgent Great Power Conflict“For Our Own Good”HeresiesWhy Health?The Spherical Cow ProblemPublic Health and the Temptations of PowerNot Our PlaceThe Radical Importance of Acknowledging ProgressWho’s Left?Too Far, or Not Far Enough?A Case against Moralism in Public HealthResisting the Allure of Moral GrandstandingResisting Our Suburban ImpulsesChecking Our Blind SpotsWe Need to Talk about ClassPublic Health and TraditionMy Bias in Favor of LivingHopesMercy and Our Present MomentA Case for Good Faith Argument“One Does Have Joys”A Playbook for Balancing the Moral and Empirical Cases for HealthThe False Choice of Diversity and Inclusion versus the Pursuit of ExcellenceOur Place in the Natural Order of ThingsWhat Do We Want from Our Political System?The Role of Experts and Community Voices BothThe Aesthetics of a Healthier WorldIntellectual Cross-Training toward a Healthier WorldThe Incredible Potential of New TechnologyThe Consent of the GovernedSpending SmarterA Populist Public HealthIn Praise of Objective RealityThe Next Generation: The Kids Are (Probably) All RightIn ConclusionToward a Liberal Public HealthAcknowledgmentsIndex