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Author Hausman, Bernice L., author.

Title Anti/vax : reframing the vaccination controversy / Bernice L. Hausman
Published Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 275 pages)
Series The culture and politics of health care work
Culture and politics of health care work.
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 02, 2019)
Subject Anti-vaccination movement -- United States
Vaccination -- Social aspects -- United States
Vaccination of children -- Social aspects -- United States
MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
Anti-vaccination movement
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018052991
ISBN 9781501735639
1501735632
9781501735646
1501735640
Other Titles Reframing the vaccination controversy