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Author Hausman, Bernice L., author
Title Anti/vax : reframing the vaccination controversy / Bernice L. Hausman
Imprint Ithaca, New York : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019
book jacket
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 Fu Ssu-Nien WTN LANG BK  RA638 H376 2019    DUE 01-31-24  計劃用書  30530000998575
Descript xiv, 275 pages ; 24 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Series The culture and politics of health care work
Culture and politics of health care work
Note 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"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Anti-vaccination movement -- United States
Vaccination -- Social aspects -- United States
Vaccination of children -- Social aspects -- United States
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