Anti/vax : reframing the vaccine controversy / Bernice L. Hausman.
By: Hausman, Bernice L [author.].
Series: The culture and politics of health care work.Publisher: Ithaca, New York : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, ©2019Description: 275 p: 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501735622.Subject(s): Anti-vaccination movement -- United States | Vaccination -- Social aspects -- United States | Vaccination of children -- Social aspects -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| RA638 .C66 2015 Vaccine nation : America's changing relationship with immunization / | RA638 .F44 2018 Vaccines : what everyone needs to know / | RA638 .G75 2018 Vaccines : are they worth a shot? / | RA638 .H38 2019 Anti/vax : reframing the vaccine controversy / | RA638 .H47 2012 Your baby's best shot : why vaccines are safe and save lives / | RA638 .H683 2021 Preventing the next pandemic : vaccine diplomacy in a time of anti-science / | RA638 .H69 2011 Long shot : vaccines for national defense / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : vaccination stories and why I wrote this book -- So what bothers you about vaccines? -- Immune to reason -- Whom do you trust? -- Being a responsible parent -- Is vaccine refusal a form of science denial? -- What are facts and how do we trust them? -- Medicalization and biomedicalization -- Antimedicine in theory and practice -- Viral imaginations -- Anti/vax.
"Anti/Vax argues that vaccine skepticism is not an outlier position that can be eradicated with scientific literacy; rather, it encompasses a variety of concerns that permeate modern cultures and shed light on a pervasive unease with medicine, pharmaceutical companies, and bureaucratic decision making"--