Post-Truth Implications for COVID-Era Healthcare : Verification, Trust, and Vaccine Skepticism
(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.
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/8e4ba489-c3a6-41cc-afe2-3001ba800509
- author
- Goldman, Aaron James LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-10
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- 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
- 978-3-030-99838-7
- 978-3-030-99837-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-99838-7_8
- project
- Kierkegaard, Modernity & Critique
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 8e4ba489-c3a6-41cc-afe2-3001ba800509
- date added to LUP
- 2022-02-08 16:00:19
- date last changed
- 2022-11-07 13:44:31
@inbook{8e4ba489-c3a6-41cc-afe2-3001ba800509, 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.}}, author = {{Goldman, Aaron James}}, booktitle = {{The Future Circle of Healthcare : AI, 3D Printing, Longevity, Ethics, and Uncertainty Mitigation}}, editor = {{Ehsani, Sepehr and Glauner, Patrick and Plugmann, Philipp and Thieringer, Florian}}, isbn = {{978-3-030-99838-7}}, issn = {{2662-2467}}, keywords = {{COVID; trust; vaccine; William James; authority; social epistemology; Covid-19}}, language = {{eng}}, pages = {{129--146}}, publisher = {{Springer}}, series = {{Future of Business and Finance}}, 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}}, doi = {{10.1007/978-3-030-99838-7_8}}, year = {{2022}}, }