Abstract
Medical populism, a performance-based political style that orchestrates antagonistic relations between the people and medical establishments, has served as a concept for analyzing the politicization of healthcare. With its four fundamental features, that is, invoking knowledge claims contrary to medical experts’ advice, simplifying discourse, dramatizing responses to public health crises, and forging divisions, medical populism compromises our access to accurate medical or public health information. Populist leaders abuse their epistemic authority and betray public trust when they propagate false information, medical or otherwise. And insofar as accurate medical or public health information is an epistemic good that we have the right to access, and not having so harms us precisely as knowers, we claim that medical populism violates our epistemic rights.
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Tubera, Kurt Christian B. and Dacela, Mark Anthony
(2025)
"Medical Populism and Epistemic Rights,"
Asia-Pacific Social Science Review: Vol. 25:
Iss.
2, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59588/2350-8329.1575
Available at:
https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol25/iss2/11
