Published
Jun 30, 2023Page count
372 pagesISBN
978-1447368373Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jun 30, 2023Page count
372 pagesISBN
978-1447368366Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jun 30, 2023Page count
372 pagesISBN
978-1447368380Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jun 30, 2023Page count
372 pagesISBN
978-1447368380Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy Press
Health in a Post-COVID World
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 validity of these – the founding principles of Western liberalism – and the policies they shape, 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.
Sebastian Taylor leads the global programme at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He is an advisor to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and served as Senior Research Fellow on the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. He works with governments, UN agencies, international and local NGOs on health systems strengthening in India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal, Afghanistan and Laos, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sierra Leone amongst other countries. He led intervention in conflict-affected and post-conflict countries, from clearing landmines to advocacy on international humanitarian law, and has taught international health and development at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Prologue: Health and civilisation
Crisis: A Timeline
Part 1: Growth
1. Growth, Wealth and Health
2. Health and Trade
3. 'They Go on Because They Have Begun'
Part 2: Freedom
4. The Nature of Freedom
5. The Vaccine Society
6. The Freedom to Fail
7. The Dead Hand of Care
Part 3: Justice
8. The Poverty of Justice
9. Just Health, Just Care
10. A Kingdom of Ends
Part 4: Security
11. War and Peace
12. The Risk Society
Part 5: Democracy
13. One for All
Part 6: Truth
14. Who Counts?
15. Conclusion
Postscript: Crisis in the UK 2022
