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Post-Truth Implications for COVID-Era Healthcare: Verification, Trust, and Vaccine Skepticism

In: The Future Circle of Healthcare

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  • Aaron James Goldman

    (Lund University)

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Why, in the midst of the global Coronavirus pandemic, do so many people seem resistant to the recommendations of established medical experts? In this chapter, I explore possible structural causes of this resistance in the US context. I argue that in the “post-truth” era, attempts to encourage people to wear face masks and get vaccinated confront challenges pertaining to how scientific knowledge is verified and disseminated. Public health interventions that fail to account for the reduction of trust in established healthcare institutions risk reinscribing a dynamic that contributes to the further inefficacy of those interventions.

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  • Aaron James Goldman, 2022. "Post-Truth Implications for COVID-Era Healthcare: Verification, Trust, and Vaccine Skepticism," Future of Business and Finance, in: Sepehr Ehsani & Patrick Glauner & Philipp Plugmann & Florian M. Thieringer (ed.), The Future Circle of Healthcare, pages 129-146, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:fuobcp:978-3-030-99838-7_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99838-7_8
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