Public Health in the Age of Anxiety : Religious and Cultural Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada / Centre for Studies in Religion & Society; Paul Bramadat, Maryse Guay, Julie Bettinger, Rêal Roy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Centre for Studies in Religion & Society, Author.

Contributor:

Bettinger, Julie, editor.

Bramadat, Paul, editor.

Guay, Maryse, editor.

Roy, Réal, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vaccination of children--Canada.

Vaccination of children.

Vaccination--Canada.

Vaccination.

Vaccines--Canada.

Vaccines.

Canada.

Medical Subjects:

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 4 Figures

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Controversies and scepticism 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. The contributors critically analyse 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction and theory

Introduction: Seeking a Better Conversation / Bramadat, Paul

1. Crises of Trust and Truth: Religion, Culture, and Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada / Bramadat, Paul

2. Vaccine Hesitancy: Ethical Considerations from Multiple Perspectives / O’Doherty, Kieran C. / Smith, Christine / Mcmurtry, C. Meghan

3. The Role of Risk Perception in Vaccine Hesitancy and the Challenge of Communication / Brunk, Conrad G.

History

4. Learning from Smallpox Inoculation Refusal: Early Scientific Debates and the Evolution of Vaccine Refusal / Roy, Réal

5. Not without Risk: The Complex History of Vaccine Resistance in Central Canada, 1885–1960 / Macdougall, Heather / Monnais, Laurence

Biomedicine, The State, And Vaccine-Hesitant/ Rejecting Communities

6. A Portrait Of Vaccine-Hesitant Canadians / Guay, Maryse / Dubé, Eve / Laberge, Caroline

7. Vaccine Hesitancy And The Use Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine / Dubé, Eve / Sauvageau, Chantal / Gagnon, Dominique

8. Epidemiologic Trends In Vaccine-Preventable Diseases And Immunization In Canada / Bettinger, Julie A. / Macdonald, Shannon E.

9. Canada’S Vaccine Safety System / Naus, Monika / Law, Barbara / Rinfret, Aline

Vaccine Politics In Clinical, Media, And Community Settings

10. “It’S Your Body, Your Decision”: An Anthropological Exploration Of Hpv Vaccine Hesitancy / Roberts, Jennafer / Mitchell, Lisa M.

11. Approaching Vaccine-Hesitant Parents: A Clinician’S Perspective / Boucher, François D.

12. The Roots Of Vaccine Hesitancy / Picard, André

13. Public Health And Personal Heuristics / Macdonald, Noni E.

Conclusion

14. Continuing The Conversation / Bramadat, Paul / Bettinger, Julie A. / Guay, Maryse

Appendix

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1041-1

1-4875-1040-3

OCLC:

1054881908