Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time

by Sandro Galea

A provocative chronicle of how US public health has strayed from its liberal roots.

The Covid-19 response was a crucible of politics and public health--a 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.

It was, as Sandro Galea argues, a crisis of liberalism: a retreat from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226822915
• ISBN13: 9780226822914
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"