Anti/Vax

Reframing the Vaccination Controversy

Bernice L. Hausman

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English

ILR Press
15 September 2025

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Health systems & services; Medical sociology

Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

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.

By: Bernice L. Hausman
Imprint: ILR Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501785030
ISBN 10: 1501785036
Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 15 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Bernice L. Hausman is the Garner James Cline Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Chair of the Department of Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Viral Mothers, Mother's Milk, and Changing Sex.