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The Stories We Tell: Narrative, Policymaking, and the Right to Try

2020-06-02

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Personal stories that demonstrate public health problems can be a persuasive tool to obtain public support for a legislative, regulatory, or other legally oriented solution. Personal stories associate an identified life—a specific, inherently sympathetic person who needs help now—with a problem that can be solved by public action. This association enables us to draw parallels between ourselves and the identified...

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Literature Corpus work: 4d16bc6f-d686-55e9-bbe8-14d4d6fa8cbb
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3611403

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