Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start -- and Why They Don't Go Away
Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why They Don't Go Away by Heidi J. Larson
2020 | ISBN: 0190077247 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 6 MB
2020 | ISBN: 0190077247 | English | 200 pages | PDF | 6 MB
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.