Anti/Vax (eBook)

Reframing the Vaccination Controversy

Bernice L. Hausman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
294 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-3564-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In Anti/Vax, Bernice Hausman challenges the widespread perception of vaccine skepticism shaped by media, celebrities, and internet misinformation. She explores other motivations behind vaccine hesitancy, including distrust of pharmaceutical companies and the belief that illness plays a role in good health. Seeking to reframe the conversation, she shows that when resistance to vaccination is portrayed as scientific illiteracy, denial of scientific facts, or simply as irrational, we lose opportunities to understand many people's real concerns. Anti/Vax reveals that resistance to vaccination consolidates a number of cultural issues-from critiques of medicalization to concerns about government overreach-and raises questions about public health norms. Researched and published before the Covid-19 pandemic, Hausman's rich exploration of the cultural themes animating vaccine skepticism continues to illuminate controversies over vaccination today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.4.2019
• Reihe/Serie: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Reihe/Serie: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: antivaxxers • Bernice Hausman • bodily autonomy • citizens' health • Community Health • Conservative • conspiracy • ethical implications • health controversies • illness and good health • immunization concerns • individual freedom • media portrayal • medical distrust • medicalization • medicalization critique • modern medicine • modern medicine critique • Pharmaceutical • Pharmaceutical companies • public dialogue • Public Health • Public health policy • right wing • scientific illiteracy stereotype • Societal beliefs • state responsibility • suspicion of Big Pharma • vaccinations • vaccinations, pharmaceutical, bodily autonomy, citizens' health, medicalization, modern medicine • vaccinations, pharmaceutical, citizens' health, medicalization, modern medicine, antivaxxers, public health policy • vaccine debate • vaccine hesitancy • vaccine mandates • vaccine skepticism
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-3564-0 / 1501735640
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-3564-6 / 9781501735646