Anti/Vax : Reframing the Vaccination Controversy /

Antivaxxers are crazy. That is the perception we all gain from the media, the internet, celebrities, and beyond, writes Bernice Hausman in Anti/Vax, but we need to open our eyes and ears so that we can all have a better conversation about vaccine skepticism and its implications.Hausman argues that t...

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Main Author: Hausman, Bernice L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2019
Series:The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Subjects:
Medicine & Medical Issues.
Public Policy.
MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery.
medicína
očkovanie
ISBN:9781501735639
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Vaccination Stories and Why I Wrote This Book
  • 1. So What Bothers You about Vaccines?
  • 2. Immune to Reason
  • 3. Whom Do You Trust?
  • 4. Being a Responsible Parent
  • 5. Is Vaccine Refusal a Form of Science Denial?
  • 6. What Are Facts, and How Do We Trust Them?
  • 7. Medicalization and Biomedicalization
  • 8. Antimedicine in Theory and Practice
  • 9. Viral Imaginations
  • 10. Anti/Vax
  • Conclusion: What Vaccination Controversy Can Teach Us about Medicine and Modernity
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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