Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Foundations -- What Stories Will We Tell about COVID-19? -- Liberty and Health? -- Fear -- The Economics of Illiberalism -- How to Get Healthier and Wealthier during a Crisis -- Decision-Making in an Age of Social Media -- Borders in an Age of Pandemics -- UFOs, COVID-19, and the Return of Radical Uncertainty -- Why Do We Tell the Stories We Tell? -- The History of Soccer, the Butterfly Effect, and Public Health -- The Ongoing Challenge of Race -- Not in the Name of Public Health -- Health and the Opportunity to Think Freely -- Thinking in Groups or Thinking for Ourselves: In Praise of Iconoclasm -- The Challenge of Slow-Burning Threats -- The Ineluctable Role of the Faceless Bureaucrat -- Sectarianism and the Public's Health -- Health in an Era of Resurgent Great Power Conflict -- "For Our Own Good" -- Heresies -- Why Health? -- The Spherical Cow Problem -- Public Health and the Temptations of Power -- Not Our Place -- The Radical Importance of Acknowledging Progress -- Who's Left? -- Too Far, or Not Far Enough? -- A Case against Moralism in Public Health -- Resisting the Allure of Moral Grandstanding -- Resisting Our Suburban Impulses -- Checking Our Blind Spots -- We Need to Talk about Class -- Public Health and Tradition -- My Bias in Favor of Living -- Hopes -- Mercy and Our Present Moment -- A Case for Good Faith Argument -- "One Does Have Joys" -- A Playbook for Balancing the Moral and Empirical Cases for Health -- The False Choice of Diversity and Inclusion versus the Pursuit of Excellence -- Our Place in the Natural Order of Things -- What Do We Want from Our Political System? -- The Role of Experts and Community Voices Both -- The Aesthetics of a Healthier World -- Intellectual Cross-Training toward a Healthier World -- The Incredible Potential of New Technology -- The Consent of the Governed.