HEALTH IN A POST-COVID WORLD : lessons from the crisis of western liberalism

What part do the values of growth and prosperity, freedom and justice, security and democracy play in social policy and human welfare? How can we judge the policies offered to us as the recipe for progress? At a time of global ‘permacrisis’, Sebastian Taylor applies his extensive frontline experience working with health systems and healthcare in the Global North and South to assess the concrete impact of contemporary liberal values on our welfare, development and environmental survival. Drawing on research from around the world, he uses health as an objective metric to assess how effective these policies are for individuals and society as a whole. Front Cover Health in a Post-Covid World: Lessons from the Crisis of Western Liberalism Copyright information Dedication Table of contents List of figures Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: health and civilisation Crisis: a timeline PART I Growth 1 Growth, wealth and health Dismal perhaps, but scientific? Growth and health Notes 2 Health, development, capital and trade Sustainable what? The confrontation of growth, trade and health Notes 3 ‘They go on because they have begun’ The limits to growth Conclusion Notes PART II Freedom 4 The nature of freedom Development as freedom – political versus economic Notes 5 The vaccine society The roots of refusal Notes 6 The freedom to fail Feeding freedom Notes 7 The dead hand of care Conclusion Notes PART III Justice 8 The poverty of justice Justice and its limits Justice, poverty and opportunity Justice as a lesser inequality A supply-side justice Notes 9 Just health, just care Justice as healthcare The roots of justice Notes 10 A kingdom of ends Health, knowledge, power Conclusion Notes PART IV Security 11 War and peace Security: from national to human Global health security Securitising AIDS North and South Notes 12 The risk society The sociology of disease HIV/AIDS Zika Ebola COVID Conclusion Notes PART V Democracy 13 All for one Health and democracy Famine and feast Conclusion Notes PART VI Truth 14 Who counts? Health as truth? The earth from space The geography of meaning Terra incognita Conclusion Notes Conclusion: crisis redux Note Postscript: crisis in the UK Notes References Preface Introduction: health and civilisation Crisis: a timeline Chapter 1: Growth, wealth and health Chapter 2: Health, development, capital and trade Chapter 3: ‘They go on because they have begun’ Chapter 4: The nature of freedom Chapter 5: The vaccine society Chapter 6: The freedom to fail Chapter 7: The dead hand of care Chapter 8: The poverty of justice Chapter 9: Just health, just care Chapter 10: A kingdom of ends Chapter 11: War and peace Chapter 12: The risk society Chapter 13: All for one Chapter 14: Who counts? Conclusion: crisis redux Postscript: crisis in the UK Index