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050		4	_aR723.7 _b.E64 2022
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100	1		_aEngebretsen, Eivind, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aRethinking evidence in the time of pandemics : _bscientific vs narrative rationality and medical knowledge practices / _cEivind Engebretsen, Mona Baker.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2022.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 107 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge medicine
506	0		_aOpen Access. _fUnrestricted online access _2star
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2022).
520			_aThe COVID-19 crisis has transformed the highly specialized issue of what constitutes reliable medical evidence into a topic of public concern and debate. This book interrogates the assumption that evidence means the same thing to different constituencies and in different contexts. Rather than treating various practices of knowledge as rational or irrational in purely scientific terms, it explains the controversies surrounding COVID-19 by drawing on a theoretical framework that recognizes different types of rationality, and hence plural conceptualizations of evidence. Debates within and beyond the medical establishment on the efficacy of measures such as mandatory face masks are examined in detail, as are various degrees of hesitancy towards vaccines. The authors demonstrate that it is ultimately through narratives that knowledge about medical and other phenomena is communicated to others, enters the public space, and provokes discussion and disagreements. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
650		0	_aEvidence-based medicine.
650		0	_aCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
605		0	_aPandemics _xSocial aspects.
700	1		_aBaker, Mona, _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781316516607
830		0	_aCambridge medicine (Series)
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030687
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