Title Public health in the age of anxiety : religious and cultural roots of vaccine hesitancy in Canada / edited by Paul Bramadat, Maryse Guay, Julie A. Bettinger, and Réal Roy

Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction and Theory; Introduction: Seeking a Better Conversation; 1 Crises of Trust and Truth: Religion, Culture, and Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada; 2 Vaccine Hesitancy: Ethical Considerations from Multiple Perspectives; 3 The Role of Risk Perception in Vaccine Hesitancy and the Challenge of Communication; History; 4 Learning from Smallpox Inoculation Refusal: Early Scientific Debates and the Evolution of Vaccine Refusal; 5 Not without Risk: The Complex History of Vaccine Resistance in Central Canada, 1885-1960 Biomedicine, the State, and Vaccine-Hesitant/Rejecting Communities6 A Portrait of Vaccine-Hesitant Canadians; 7 Vaccine Hesitancy and the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine; 8 Epidemiologic Trends in Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization in Canada; 9 Canada's Vaccine Safety System ; Vaccine Politics in Clinical, Media, and Community Settings; 10 "It's Your Body, Your Decision": An Anthropological Exploration of HPV Vaccine Hesitancy; 11 Approaching Vaccine-Hesitant Parents: A Clinician's Perspective; 12 The Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy 13 Public Health and Personal HeuristicsConclusion; 14 Continuing the Conversation; Appendix; Contributors; Index Summary Public Health in the Age of Anxiety enhances both the public and scholarly understanding of the motivations behind vaccine hesitancy in Canada Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Vaccination -- Canada Vaccination of children -- Canada Vaccines -- Canada Vaccination Refusal MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine. MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine. MEDICAL -- Public Health. Vaccination Vaccination of children Vaccines SUBJECT Canada https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170 Subject Canada Form Electronic book Author Guay, Maryse, 1957- editor Bramadat, Paul, 1967- editor. Roy, Réal, 1963- editor Bettinger, Julie A., editor ISBN 9781487510404 1487510403 9781487510411 1487510411

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