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Anti-vaxxers : how to challenge a misinformed movement / Jonathan M. Berman.
LIBRA RA638 .B47 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berman, Jonathan M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-vaccination movement.
- Vaccines.
- Anti-Vaccination Movement.
- Vaccination Refusal.
- Sociological Factors.
- Vaccination--psychology.
- Treatment Outcome.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Anti-Vaccination Movement.
- Vaccination Refusal.
- Sociological Factors.
- Vaccination--psychology.
- Treatment Outcome.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 277 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- How to challenge a misinformed movement
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Vaccines are a documented success story, one of the most successful public health interventions in history. Yet there is a vocal anti-vaccination movement and the propagation of anti-vax claims through books, documentaries, and social media. In Anti-vaxxers, Jonathan Berman explores the phenomenon of the anti-vaccination movement, recounting its history from its nineteenth-century antecedents to today's activism, examining its claims, and suggesting a strategy for countering them. -- adapted from back cover
- "A presentation of the scientific argument in favor of vaccination, which probes the consequences, origins and impact of the anti-vaccination movement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Is There Even A Problem?
- 2. Understanding Vaccines
- 3. The World Before Vaccines
- 4. The First Vaccine
- 5. The First Anti-Vaccine Movements
- 6. Vaccine Pioneers
- 7. The Twentieth-Century Anti-Vaccine Movement
- 8. Autism
- 9. The Anti-Vaccine Movement, 1998
- Present
- 10. Vaxxed
- 11. Too Many, Too Soon
- 12. Deadly Immunity
- 13. Ineffective "Alternatives" To Vaccination
- 14. Social Media, "Fake News," And The Spread Of Information
- 15. Escalation Of Commitment
- 16. Religion And Vaccine Hesitancy
- 17. Big Pharma
- 18. Anti-Vaccine Activism In 2018 And 2019
- 19. Vaccine Advocates
- 20. Who Are They?
- 21. The Anti-Vaccine Parent
- 22. What Changes Minds About Vaccines?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262539326
- 0262539322
- OCLC:
- 1131872189
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