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Vaccine Hesitancy : Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822988014
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vaccine HesitancyDDC classification:
  • 615.372
LOC classification:
  • QR189
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Vaccine Hesitancy in the Industrialized North -- Part I. A War on Science -- 1. The "Ignorant Public" -- 2. The "Stubborn Mind" -- 3. The "Death of Expertise" -- 4. Politicized Science and Scientized Politics -- Part II. A Crisis of Trust -- 5. Trust and Credibility in Science -- 6. The Scientific Expert as Hero and Maverick -- Conclusion: Rebuilding Trust -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Reframes Resistance to Vaccines as a Crisis of Public Trust Rather than a War on Science.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Vaccine Hesitancy in the Industrialized North -- Part I. A War on Science -- 1. The "Ignorant Public" -- 2. The "Stubborn Mind" -- 3. The "Death of Expertise" -- 4. Politicized Science and Scientized Politics -- Part II. A Crisis of Trust -- 5. Trust and Credibility in Science -- 6. The Scientific Expert as Hero and Maverick -- Conclusion: Rebuilding Trust -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Reframes Resistance to Vaccines as a Crisis of Public Trust Rather than a War on Science.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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