Anti/Vax

Reframing the Vaccination Controversy

Bernice L. Hausman

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English

ILR Press
15 April 2019

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

Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

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 the heated debate about vaccinations and whether to get them or not is most often fueled by accusations and vilifications rather than careful attention to the real concerns of many Americans. She wants to set the record straight about vaccine skepticism and show how the issues and ideas that motivate it-like suspicion of pharmaceutical companies or the belief that some illness is necessary to good health-are commonplace in our society.

Through Anti/Vax, Hausman wants to engage public health officials, the media, and each of us in a public dialogue about the relation of individual bodily autonomy to the state's responsibility to safeguard citizens' health. We need to know more about the position of each side in this important stand-off so that public decisions are made through understanding rather than stereotyped perceptions of scientifically illiterate antivaxxers or faceless bureaucrats. Hausman reveals that vaccine skepticism is, in part, a critique of medicalization and a warning about the dangers of modern medicine rather than a glib and gullible reaction to scaremongering and misunderstanding.

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: 27mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9781501735622
ISBN 10: 1501735624
Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 15 April 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy

Deeply thought provoking, Anti/Vax is an excellent book and a surprising intellectual journey into and across the cultural underpinnings of contemporary vaccination skepticism. Bernice Hausman, as author and narrator, is a masterful guide. --Elena Conis, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, and author of the award-winning book Vaccine Nation