Rethinking Evidence, Mona Baker

Narratives and Evidence – Which stories about COVID-19 did we believe and why?

May 27, 2022 Mona Baker Rethinking Evidence

Eivind Engebretsen, Mona Baker LSE Impact Blog, 25 May 2022 Rigorous empirical evidence is often presumed to be the most persuasive, notably in fields such as healthcare and medicine, where there are established frameworks for assessing the quality of evidence. In this post, Eivind Engebretsen and Mona Baker argue for the importance of narrative rationality, especially in areas

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How to make sense of medical evidence?

March 28, 2022 Mona Baker Rethinking Evidence

Read about our new book on evidence and COVID-19 In our forthcoming book, Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2022), we offer a theoretical framework that identifies and distinguishes different types of rationality – specifically scientific and narrative rationality – and hence plural conceptualizations of evidence in

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