Vaccine hesitancy : public trust, expertise, and the war on science /
"The public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2021]
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Colección: | Science, values, and the public.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Vaccine hesitancy in the industrialized North
- The "ignorant public"
- The "stubborn mind"
- The "death of expertise"
- Politicized science and scientized politics
- Trust and credibility in science
- The scientific expert as hero and maverick
- Conclusion. Rebuilding trust.