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Post-Truth Implications for COVID-Era Healthcare : Verification, Trust, and Vaccine Skepticism

Goldman, Aaron James LU (2022) In Future of Business and Finance p.129-146
Abstract
Why, in the midst of the global Coronavirus pandemic, do so many people seem resistant to the recommendations of established medical experts? In this chapter, I explore possible structural causes of this resistance in the U.S. context. I argue that in the “post-truth” era, attempts to encourage people to wear face masks and get vaccinated confront challenges pertaining to how scientific knowledge is verified and disseminated. Public health interventions that fail to account for the re-duction of trust in established healthcare institutions risk reinscribing a dynamic that contributes to the further inefficacy of those interventions.
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keywords
COVID, trust, vaccine, William James, authority, social epistemology, Covid-19
host publication
The Future Circle of Healthcare : AI, 3D Printing, Longevity, Ethics, and Uncertainty Mitigation - AI, 3D Printing, Longevity, Ethics, and Uncertainty Mitigation
series title
Future of Business and Finance
editor
Ehsani, Sepehr ; Glauner, Patrick ; Plugmann, Philipp and Thieringer, Florian
pages
18 pages
publisher
Springer
ISSN
2662-2467
2662-2475
ISBN
978-3-030-99837-0
978-3-030-99838-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-99838-7_8
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Kierkegaard, Modernity & Critique
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English
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yes
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8e4ba489-c3a6-41cc-afe2-3001ba800509
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2022-02-08 16:00:19
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2022-11-07 13:44:31
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  title        = {{Post-Truth Implications for COVID-Era Healthcare : Verification, Trust, and Vaccine Skepticism}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99838-7_8}},
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