Pearce publishes paper on Covid science advice

Warren Pearce (UK) published a paper about uncertainties in UK science advice in Humanities & Social Science Communications. The paper argues that contradictory representations of Covid infection rates in the UK stem from the dual roles of science advisors as both knowledge producers (through epidemiological models) and knowledge users (through policy advice).

Jasanoff publishes article on “public health sovereignty”

Sheila Jasanoff’s “Pathologies of Liberty: Public Health Sovereignty and the Political Subject in the Covid-19 Crisis” appeared in Cahiers Droit, Sciences & Technologies. It analyzes how litigation during the pandemic tested the nature and limits of power in the US public health system.  
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