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I'm Beatrice Adler Bolton, and I'm here today with my co-hosts, Artie Virkant.

Hello.

And Abby Cardis.

Hello.

And today the three of us are going to be talking about a book called Within Reason,

a liberal public health for an illiberal time by Sandra Galea, an influential figure in the

field of public health and the dean of the School of Public Health at Boston University.

It's not a good book, as I'm sure many of you guessed just now based on the title alone,

the book claims to tackle the so-called loss of trust in public health, which Galea attributes

to the field overstepping its bounds in response to the COVID pandemic, by which he means

it is implied that public health supported

broad COVID protections for too long, and that in allowing public health to be politicized,

public health institutions, quote, succumbed to the temptation to lean towards illiberalism.

Suffice it to say we have some critiques. So again, the book is called, within reason, a liberal public health for an illiberal

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