Follow *the* science? On the marginal role of the social sciences in the COVID-19 pandemic

In this paper, we use the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe to address the question of what kind of knowledge we should incorporate into public health policy. We show that policy-making during the COVID-19 pandemic has been biomedicine-centric in that its evidential basis marginalised input fr...

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Autores principales: Lohse, Simon, Canali, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2021
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Paper in Philosophy of Science in Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8532106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34703507
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00416-y
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description In this paper, we use the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe to address the question of what kind of knowledge we should incorporate into public health policy. We show that policy-making during the COVID-19 pandemic has been biomedicine-centric in that its evidential basis marginalised input from non-biomedical disciplines. We then argue that in particular the social sciences could contribute essential expertise and evidence to public health policy in times of biomedical emergencies and that we should thus strive for a tighter integration of the social sciences in future evidence-based policy-making. This demand faces challenges on different levels, which we identify and discuss as potential inhibitors for a more pluralistic evidential basis.
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spelling pubmed-85321062021-10-22 Follow *the* science? On the marginal role of the social sciences in the COVID-19 pandemic Lohse, Simon Canali, Stefano Eur J Philos Sci Paper in Philosophy of Science in Practice In this paper, we use the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe to address the question of what kind of knowledge we should incorporate into public health policy. We show that policy-making during the COVID-19 pandemic has been biomedicine-centric in that its evidential basis marginalised input from non-biomedical disciplines. We then argue that in particular the social sciences could contribute essential expertise and evidence to public health policy in times of biomedical emergencies and that we should thus strive for a tighter integration of the social sciences in future evidence-based policy-making. This demand faces challenges on different levels, which we identify and discuss as potential inhibitors for a more pluralistic evidential basis. Springer Netherlands 2021-10-22 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8532106/ /pubmed/34703507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00416-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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