Anti/vax : reframing the vaccination controversy /
Reframing the vaccination controversy
Bernice L. Hausman.
- Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages).
- The culture and politics of health care work .
Includes bibliographies 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"--
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Anti-vaccination movement--United States. Vaccination--Social aspects--United States. Vaccination of children--Social aspects--United States.