Resisting the postliberal temptation
This piece was co-written by Dr Salma Abdalla and is also cross-posted here.
In January, we launched the Purple Public Health Project with the aspiration of shoring up the field’s foundations, rebuilding the public’s trust in what we do, and reorienting the field around core values that can help guide public health in this moment and beyond. Today, we would like to discuss these values, and how they align the larger forces that can support social and political progress in this moment.
We suggest that the values of public health are, and should continue to be, the values of small-l liberalism. What do we mean by small-l liberalism?
While there are several definitions of the term liberalism, in this article we refer to a system where political tensions are resolved through persuasion rather than the exercise of raw power, where ideas win out in the long term because they are better, not because they are imposed from above (or from below).
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