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Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics - Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics - Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices (Hardcover)
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The COVID-19 crisis has transformed the highly specialized issue of
what constitutes reliable medical evidence into a topic of public
concern and debate. This book interrogates the assumption that
evidence means the same thing to different constituencies and in
different contexts. Rather than treating various practices of
knowledge as rational or irrational in purely scientific terms, it
explains the controversies surrounding COVID-19 by drawing on a
theoretical framework that recognizes different types of
rationality, and hence plural conceptualizations of evidence.
Debates within and beyond the medical establishment on the efficacy
of measures such as mandatory face masks are examined in detail, as
are various degrees of hesitancy towards vaccines. The authors
demonstrate that it is ultimately through narratives that knowledge
about medical and other phenomena is communicated to others, enters
the public space, and provokes discussion and disagreements. This
title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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