Eivind Engebretsen, Mona Baker

Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics (eBook, PDF)

Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Explores differences in beliefs of what constitutes reliable scientific evidence during public health emergencies, including COVID-19.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009035231
• Artikelnr.: 70910836

Autorenporträt

Eivind Engebretsen is Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway. He is Circle U Chair of Global Health and Executive Chariman of the Center for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Evidence in Times of Crisis
2. Narrative Rationality and the Logic of Good Reasons
3. Whose Evidence? What Rationality? The Face Mask Controversy
4. Whose Lives? What Values? Herd Immunity, Lockdowns, and Social/Physical Distancing
5. The Rational World Paradigm, the Narrative Paradigm and the Politics of Pharmaceutical Interventions
6. Objectivist vs Praxial Knowledge: Towards a Model of Situated Epistemologies and Narrative Identification
Bibliography
Index.