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.
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