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Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time de Sandro Galea

Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time

Autor Sandro Galea
en Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2023

În volumul Within Reason, Sandro Galea propune o analiză clinică a modului în care sănătatea publică a devenit un câmp de bătălie ideologic, îndepărtându-se de fundamentele sale liberale. Reținem premisa centrală a autorului: răspunsul la pandemia de Covid-19 a funcționat ca un creuzet în care expertiza științifică a fost absorbită de interese politice, rezultând într-o restrângere a libertății de exprimare și a dezbaterii deschise. Structura cărții, compusă din 50 de eseuri concise, permite o investigație fragmentată, dar coerentă, asupra modului în care absolutismul a înlocuit ancheta rațională.

Putem afirma că lucrarea se situează pe linia analitică a volumului The Turning Point de Michael D. Stein, ambele reflectând asupra lecțiilor pandemiei prin prisma sănătății populației, însă Sandro Galea pune un accent mult mai pregnant pe criza liberalismului și pe pericolele sectarismului intelectual. Această abordare continuă explorările din lucrarea sa anterioară, Healthier, unde autorul a utilizat formatul eseistic pentru a discuta starea sănătății publice, însă de data aceasta tonul este marcat de o urgență etică și de necesitatea unei autoreflecții profunde a sistemului medical.

Organizarea conținutului în secțiuni precum „Foundations” și „Heresies” indică o progresie de la analiza eșecurilor sistemice la o provocare directă a dogmelor actuale. Sunt abordate teme complexe, de la rolul birocratului anonim la impactul rețelelor sociale în luarea deciziilor, oferind o perspectivă interdisciplinară ce combină epidemiologia cu teoria politică. Credem că această lucrare reprezintă un punct de referință pentru înțelegerea modului în care instituțiile medicale trebuie să își recupereze neutralitatea și rigoarea pentru a proteja viitorul sănătății publice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226822914
ISBN-10: 0226822915
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 1 line drawing
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este esențială pentru specialiștii în politici de sănătate și etică medicală care doresc să înțeleagă riscurile politizării științei. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care intoleranța ideologică poate compromite progresul social. Este un apel la rațiune și iconoclasm intelectual, oferind instrumentele necesare pentru a naviga într-un peisaj medical tot mai polarizat, fără a sacrifica rigoarea științifică.

Despre autor

Sandro Galea este profesor de epidemiologie la School of Public Health din cadrul University of Michigan. Recunoscut ca o voce de avangardă în sănătatea publică, Galea s-a remarcat prin lucrări care analizează factorii sociali și politici ce influențează bunăstarea populației. Printre contribuțiile sale notabile se numără Healthier, o colecție de eseuri despre succesul și eșecurile sănătății urbane, și Migration and Health, o analiză a dinamicii dintre mișcarea populațiilor și sănătatea globală. În Within Reason, el își folosește vasta experiență academică pentru a critica tendințele iliberale din domeniu.

Descriere scurtă

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.

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

Introduction

Foundations
What Stories Will We Tell about COVID-19?
Liberty and Health?
Fear
The Economics of Illiberalism
How to Get Healthier and Wealthier during a Crisis
Decision-Making in an Age of Social Media
Borders in an Age of Pandemics
UFOs, COVID-19, and the Return of Radical Uncertainty
Why Do We Tell the Stories We Tell?
The History of Soccer, the Butterfly Effect, and Public Health
The Ongoing Challenge of Race
Not in the Name of Public Health
Health and the Opportunity to Think Freely
Thinking in Groups or Thinking for Ourselves: In Praise of Iconoclasm
The Challenge of Slow-Burning Threats
The Ineluctable Role of the Faceless Bureaucrat
Sectarianism and the Public’s Health
Health in an Era of Resurgent Great Power Conflict
“For Our Own Good”

Heresies
Why Health?
The Spherical Cow Problem
Public Health and the Temptations of Power
Not Our Place
The Radical Importance of Acknowledging Progress
Who’s Left?
Too Far, or Not Far Enough?
A Case against Moralism in Public Health
Resisting the Allure of Moral Grandstanding
Resisting Our Suburban Impulses
Checking Our Blind Spots
We Need to Talk about Class
Public Health and Tradition
My Bias in Favor of Living

Hopes
Mercy and Our Present Moment
A Case for Good Faith Argument
“One Does Have Joys”
A Playbook for Balancing the Moral and Empirical Cases for Health
The False Choice of Diversity and Inclusion versus the Pursuit of Excellence
Our Place in the Natural Order of Things
What Do We Want from Our Political System?
The Role of Experts and Community Voices Both
The Aesthetics of a Healthier World
Intellectual Cross-Training toward a Healthier World
The Incredible Potential of New Technology
The Consent of the Governed
Spending Smarter
A Populist Public Health
In Praise of Objective Reality
The Next Generation: The Kids Are (Probably) All Right

In Conclusion
Toward a Liberal Public Health

Acknowledgments
Index

Recenzii

"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."

"Galea is a good companion in navigating readers through the political thickets in which public health now operates. [Within Reason] is not about COVID-19, but the pandemic was an enormous stress test of public health and thrust public health into the center of politics and media attention."

"In Within Reason, Galea provides a collection of his own essays to explore how the pandemic impacted public health in the US, alongside other general issues the pandemic exposed. In addition to providing incisive analysis on this topic, Galea’s essays provide a powerful and thought-provoking look at the trends in public health that were accelerated due to the pandemic."

"Within Reason provides a lucid examination of how the pandemic set in motion a gradual disenchantment with many of the liberal values that underlie the work of public health. For readers who are receptive, the book delivers a thoughtful set of ideas for moving forward while, at the same time, reclaiming a liberal approach to public health policy."

"Erudite, well written and thought-provoking."

"Galea’s book certainly covers many of the issues facing public health today and as such is required reading for those in the discipline or even those dependent on it for policy formation. . . . Galea is trying to resurrect the public health discipline from the illiberal quagmire of its ideological politicalization by re-founding it on liberalism. The question is whether public health, and to some extent science itself, can be resurrected within reason."

"[Within Reason] considers the case for a liberal public health policy, presenting reflections on the issues facing the field of public health in the United States and the efforts to establish and sustain a liberal public health policy. Examines the structural forces that shape health and how they have been shaped by the illiberalism of the contemporary political sphere."

"Accessible. . . Galea has the style of a tutor who doesn’t heap his readers with unwarranted show-and-tell sympathy. When it comes to complex issues such as the economy, ideas, inequality, health, technology, policy, and politics, he is there, engaging the audience with parables. It is not difficult to be on board with him."

“Powerful, erudite, and immersive—an essential treatise on our needed reformation in public health.”

“With equal dose of empathy and examination, Sandro Galea challenges us to undertake a deep exercise of self-reflection: how our hard-won political beliefs may betray us in the hope for a greater good. Within Reason is critically relevant for each of us—and all of us.”