Ted Schrecker1. 1. School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Stockton-on-Tees, UK.
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.
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.
Authors: Åke Bergman; Georg Becher; Bruce Blumberg; Poul Bjerregaard; Riana Bornman; Ingvar Brandt; Stephanie C Casey; Heloise Frouin; Linda C Giudice; Jerrold J Heindel; Taisen Iguchi; Susan Jobling; Karen A Kidd; Andreas Kortenkamp; P Monica Lind; Derek Muir; Roseline Ochieng; Erik Ropstad; Peter S Ross; Niels Erik Skakkebaek; Jorma Toppari; Laura N Vandenberg; Tracey J Woodruff; R Thomas Zoeller Journal: Regul Toxicol Pharmacol Date: 2015-07-31 Impact factor: 3.271