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Schrecker, T. (2017). “Stop, You’re Killing us!” An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 6(11), 673-675. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.50
Ted Schrecker. "“Stop, You’re Killing us!” An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 6, 11, 2017, 673-675. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.50
Schrecker, T. (2017). '“Stop, You’re Killing us!” An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”', International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 6(11), pp. 673-675. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.50
Schrecker, T. “Stop, You’re Killing us!” An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017; 6(11): 673-675. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.50

“Stop, You’re Killing us!” An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”

Article 7, Volume 6, Issue 11, November 2017, Page 673-675  XML PDF (418 K)
Document Type: Commentary
DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.50
Author
Ted Schrecker
School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Stockton-on-Tees, UK
Abstract
Ewen Speed and Russell Mannion correctly identify several contours of the challenges for health policy in what it is useful to think of as a post-democratic era. I argue that the problem for public health is not populism per se, but rather the distinctive populism of the right coupled with the failure of the left to develop compelling counternarratives. Further, defences of ‘science’ must be tempered by recognition of the unavoidably political dimensions of the (mis)use of scientific findings in public policy.
Keywords
Populism; Post-democracy; Science; Standards of Proof
Main Subjects
Health Politics
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