Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start -- And Why They Don't Go Away

By Heidi J. Larson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190077247
• ISBN13: 9780190077242
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"