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Public health in the age of anxiety : religious and cultural roots of vaccine hesitancy in Canada

Bramadat, Paul, 1967- editor, Guay, Maryse, editor, Bettinger, Julie A., editor, Roy, Râeal, editor

Overview

\"Controversies and skepticism surrounding vaccinations, though not new, have increasingly come to the fore as more individuals decide not to inoculate themselves or their children for cultural, religious, or other reasons. Their personal decisions put the rights of the individual on a collision course with public and community safety. Public Health in the Age of Anxiety enhances both the public and scholarly understanding of the motivations behind vaccine hesitancy in Canada. The volume brings into conversation people working within such fields as philosophy, medicine, epidemiology, history, nursing, anthropology, public policy, and religious studies. Rather than an acrimonious debate between advocates and hesitant patients the contributors critically analyze issues surrounding vaccine safety, the arguments against vaccines, the scale of anti-vaccination sentiment, public dissemination of medical research, and the effect of private beliefs on individual decision-making and public health. These essays model and encourage the type of productive engagement that is necessary to clarify the value of vaccines and reduce the tension between pro and anti-vaccination groups.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: Vaccination Canada. / Vaccination of children Canada. / Vaccines Canada. / Vaccination Refusal ethnology. / Vaccination Refusal history. / Vaccination Refusal psychology. / Vaccines history. / History, 19th Century. / History, 20th Century. / History, 21st Century. / Policy. / Religion and Medicine. / Vaccination Refusal. / Canada.
• ISBN: 9781487500207, 1487500203, 9781487520120, 1487520123

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RJ240.P83 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE