Stuck

How Vaccine Rumors Start -- and Why They Don't Go Away

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with questions around their side effects -- have gone mainstream, blending with geopolitical conflicts, political campaigns, celebrity causes, and "natural" lifestyles to win a growing number of hearts and minds. Today's anti-vaccine positions find audiences where they've never existed previously. Stuck examines how the issues surrounding vaccine hesitancy are, more than anything, about people feeling left out of the conversation. A new dialogue is long overdue, one that addresses the many types of vaccine hesitancy and the social factors that perpetuate them. To do this, Stuck provides a clear-eyed examination of the social vectors that transmit vaccine rumors, their manifestations around the globe, and how these individual threads are all connected.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-09-08
Mått:211 x 145 x 22 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190077242

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin
Människans biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

HEIDI J. LARSON, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology, Risk, and Decision Science and Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; she holds a concurrent position as Clinical Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington. She was previously an Associate Professor in International Development at Clark University and a Research Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health's Center for Population and Development Studies.

Recensioner i media

In Stuck, anthropologist Heidi Larson explains why debunking vaccine misinformation with logic, reason, and scientific facts are not nearly enough. By viewing vaccine refusal as a cultural movement, Larson explains how it is only through understanding the root causes of false beliefs about vaccines that we can begin to change them. A compelling guide on how to treat the disease and not the symptoms.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: An Overview Chapter Two: The psychology of crowdsChapter Three: On freedom of choice and voiceChapter Four: On risks, rumors, and the contagion of panicChapter Five: Back to Nature Conclusion: Missing the Point