Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
A provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots.\nThe Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health\u2014a 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.\nIt 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.\nAcross fifty essays,\xa0Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time\xa0(U Chicago Press, 2023) 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.\xa0Within Reason\xa0builds an incisive case for a return to critical, open inquiry as a guiding principle for the future public health we want\u2014and a future we must work to protect.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law