Hausman, Bernice L.,

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.


Electronic Books.

RA638 / .A585 2019