The COVID-19 pandemic: a case for epistemic pluralism in public health policy

This paper uses the example of the COVID-19 pandemic to analyse the danger associated with insufficient epistemic pluralism in evidence-based public health policy. Drawing on certain elements in Paul Feyerabend’s political philosophy of science, it discusses reasons for implementing more pluralism a...

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Autores principales: Lohse, Simon, Bschir, Karim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7734607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33315121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00353-8
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spelling pubmed-77346072020-12-14 The COVID-19 pandemic: a case for epistemic pluralism in public health policy Lohse, Simon Bschir, Karim Hist Philos Life Sci Notes & Comments This paper uses the example of the COVID-19 pandemic to analyse the danger associated with insufficient epistemic pluralism in evidence-based public health policy. Drawing on certain elements in Paul Feyerabend’s political philosophy of science, it discusses reasons for implementing more pluralism as well as challenges to be tackled on the way forward. Springer International Publishing 2020-12-14 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7734607/ /pubmed/33315121 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00353-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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