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Events
Public Health and Its Enemies: The Threat of the Far-Right
- Time
- 1pm - 2pm
- Date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Duration
- 1 hour(s)
- Location
- O'Rahilly Building, CACSSS Seminar Room
- Presenters
Professor Vittorio Bufacchi, UCC
Abstract
Public health is currently under serious attack. The advancements made in public health since the end of World War II cannot be taken for granted, and may even be reversed by public health’s many enemies. This seminar will provide a taxonomy of philosophical positions that are sceptical or critical of public health, as we understand it today. Particular attention will be paid to the threat to public health posed by the ideology of the Far-Right.
Bio
Vittorio Bufacchi is Professor of Political Philosophy at UCC. He is the author of Social Injustice: Essays in Political Philosophy (Palgrave), Violence and Social Justice (Palgrave), and more recently a book on Covid-19, Everything Must Change: Philosophical Lessons from Lockdown (Manchester). He is currently finishing a book on human rights. At UCC he was co-founder with Prof. Ivan Perry of the MA in Health and Society.