“Stop, You’re Killing us!” An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”

Schrecker, Ted

Abstract

Ewen Speed and Russell Mannion correctly identify several contours of the challenges for health policy in what it is useful to think of as a post-democratic era. I argue that the problem for public health is not populism per se, but rather the distinctive populism of the right coupled with the failure of the left to develop compelling counternarratives. Further, defences of ‘science’ must be tempered by recognition of the unavoidably political dimensions of the (mis)use of scientific findings in public policy.

Citation

Schrecker, T. (2017). “Stop, You’re Killing us!” An Alternative Take on Populism and Public Health; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 6(11), 673-675. https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.50

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 19, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Apr 26, 2017
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: Jul 17, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 18, 2017
• Journal: International Journal of Health Policy and Management
• Print ISSN: 2322-5939
• Publisher: Kerman University of Medical Sciences
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 673-675
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.50