Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific Vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices

ISBN-13: 9781316516607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

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Opis

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

Recenzje

'In this readable, incisive analysis of recent history, Engebretsen and Baker critically revisit, expand and update Fisher's narrative paradigm for the 21st century. Evident throughout is the urgent relevance of stories not only for how we make sense of the world but for how we must imaginatively configure new and hopeful stories for effective, transformative politics.' Sue-Ann Harding, Queen's University Belfast

Spis treści

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.