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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2022

Eivind Engebretsen  and
Mona Baker
Eivind Engebretsen
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
Mona Baker
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo

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Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics
Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices
 , pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022
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Contents

  1. List of Tables and Figures

  2. Acknowledgements

  3. 1Evidence in Times of Crisis

    1. 1.1The Status of Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine

    2. 1.2Organization of Chapters

  4. 2Narrative Rationality and the Logic of Good Reasons

    1. 2.1The Narrative Paradigm: Basic Tenets

    2. 2.2Narrative Paradigm vs Rational World Paradigm

    3. 2.3Narrative Probability, Narrative Fidelity and the Logic of Good Reasons

      1. 2.3.1Narrative Probability (Coherence)

      2. 2.3.2Narrative Fidelity

  5. 3Whose Evidence? What Rationality? The Face Mask Controversy

    1. 3.1Structural and Material (In)coherence in Expert Narratives

    2. 3.2Transcendental Values, Narrative Accrual and Narrative Identification

      1. 3.2.1The Logic of Good Reasons, Narrative Accrual and Identification: Public Safety and Structural Racism

      2. 3.2.2Good Reasons, Precarious Manhood and Homophobia

    3. 3.3Beyond Precariousness: Personal Freedom vs Social Responsibility

  6. 4Whose Lives? What Values? Herd Immunity, Lockdowns and Social/Physical Distancing

    1. 4.1Structural/Material (In)coherence or Science vs Values in the Great Barrington and John Snow Declarations

    2. 4.2Health, the Economy and the State: Resonance and Lived Experience

    3. 4.3Transcendental Values and Conceptions of Freedom

    4. 4.4Public Health Recommendations and the Values and Principles of Evidence-based Policy Making

  7. 5The Rational World Paradigm, the Narrative Paradigm and the Politics of Pharmaceutical Interventions

    1. 5.1Structural and Material (In)coherence: Science and Public Policy under Pressure

    2. 5.2Characterological Coherence and Public Confidence in Vaccines

    3. 5.3Transcendental Values and Conceptions of Freedom

    4. 5.4Pure Bodies, Microchips and Genetically Modified Organisms

    5. 5.5Resonance, Lived Experience and Trust

  8. 6Objectivist vs Praxial Knowledge: Towards a Model of Situated Epistemologies and Narrative Identification

    1. 6.1Limitations of Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm

    2. 6.2Revisiting and Extending the Narrative Paradigm

    3. 6.3Narrative Identification in the Age of Fragmented Narratives

    4. 6.4A Final Note on Critical Appraisal in the EBM Model

  9. References

  10. Index

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