Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics

by Mona Baker and Eivind Engebretsen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316516601
• ISBN13: 9781316516607
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"