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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.

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