Unvaccinated under God : religion and vaccine hesitancy in modern America / Kira Ganga Kieffer

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kieffer, Kira Ganga, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vaccination--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Vaccination.

Vaccine hesitancy--United States--History.

Vaccine hesitancy.

Vaccination--Religious aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Vaccine hesitancy in America didn't begin with the uproar over the mRNA vaccines for Covid-19. The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries saw resistance to a wide variety of vaccines. In Unvaccinated Under God, Kira Ganga Kieffer shows that debates over vaccine safety and mandatory vaccination were about more than diseases or injections. They have been proxies for existential concerns about justice and morality. Kieffer argues that vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. should be understood as religious expression--not as the product of scientific misinformation." -- Publisher, inside front flap of dust jacket.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Now I Know: The DPT Injury Conversion Narrative

2. Mother Warriors and Mercury-Autism Theory

3. Virgins Don't Get Viruses: Gardasil and Risky Girlhoods

4. Flu Shot Mythology and Medical Racism

5. Measles Returns: Hotspots in Religious Enclaves

6. Exemptions as Religious Liberty

7. Herd Hesitancy and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-282) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780691224664

0691224668

OCLC:

1534688582

Publisher Number:

CIPO000365672