Magnússon, Victor Karl (2022) Experts, Democracy, and Covid-19. Philosophy of Medicine, 3 (1). pp. 1-19. ISSN 2692-3963
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Abstract
Two challenges have faced policymakers during the Covid-19 pandemic: First, they must determine the reliability of expert testimony in the face of uncertainty; second, they must determine the relevance of different kinds of expertise with regard to particular decisions. I argue that both these problems can be fruitfully analyzed through the lens of trust by introducing an in-depth case study of Iceland’s handling of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. I contend that the problem of relevance highlights the limited appeal of a thoroughly technocratic society. Value judgments, best realized through democratic processes, are always lurking in the background.
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| Keywords: | Trust Covid-19 Experts | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Depositing User: | Professor Alex Broadbent | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2022 13:46 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2022 13:46 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21551 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Medicine | ||||||
| Publisher: | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/84 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.5195/pom.2022.84 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Date: | 8 December 2022 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-19 | ||||||
| Volume: | 3 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2692-3963 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21551 |
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