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Health in a post-COVID world : lessons from the crisis of Western liberalism / Sebastian Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Sebastian, author.
- Series:
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical policy.
- Public health.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects.
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 357 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- What part do the values of growth and prosperity, freedom and justice, security and democracy play in social policy and human welfare? How can we judge the validity of these - the founding principles of Western liberalism - and the policies they shape, as the recipe for progress? At a time of global 'permacrisis', Sebastian Taylor applies his extensive frontline experience working with health systems and healthcare in the Global North and South to assess the concrete impact of contemporary liberal values on our welfare, development and environmental survival. Drawing on research from around the world, he uses health as an objective metric to assess how effective these policies are for individuals and society as a whole.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: health and civilisation
- Crisis: a timeline
- Growth
- Growth, wealth and health
- Health, development, capital and trade
- 'They go on because they have begun'
- Freedom
- The nature of freedom
- The vaccine society
- The freedom to fail
- The dead hand of care
- Justice
- The poverty of justice
- Just health, just care
- A kingdom of ends
- Security
- War and peace
- The risk society
- Democracy
- All for one
- Truth
- Who counts?
- Conclusion: crisis redux
- Postscript: crisis in the UK
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-6840-1
- 1-4473-6839-8
- OCLC:
- 1388653863
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