Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-147) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Retaining persuasion -- Doing disease -- Community immunity and the promise of eradication -- Family, authority, injury -- Persuasion and the unknown -- Conclusion: Rhetorically informed persuasion and a material rhetorical approach to controversy in science and medicine.
Summary:
"Applies rhetorical theory, object-oriented ontology, and theories of materiality to examine the full spectrum of vaccination viewpoints from doctors, patients, and parents and in order to better understand and develop a nuanced model of the vaccination/anti-vaccination debate"-- Provided by publisher.
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