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Availability:In StockContributor:Sandro GaleaPublish date:2023-12-01Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226822914ISBN-10:226822915UPC:9780226822914Book Category:Medical, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Health Policy, Public Policy, Health Care DeliveryBook Topic:Health CareSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC32TT0D9P

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226822914ISBN-10:226822915UPC:9780226822914Book Category:Medical, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Health Policy, Public Policy, Health Care DeliveryBook Topic:Health CareSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC32TT0D9P
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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