The what is and why bother with a critical public health (025)

In this way, critique is a thread that links all stages of a critical public health research process.

As Lee Harvey wrote in his book Critical Social Research, “For critical methodologists, knowledge is a process of moving towards an understanding of the world, and of the knowledge which structures our perceptions of that world.” ¹³

So let’s stop talking in the abstract. By thinking about knowledge in this way, at least two things have come to define our research — and I’ll give examples throughout the rest of the presentation to make this argument more concrete.