Vaccination and the Public in the 21st Century

Hausman, Bernice

Title:

Vaccination and the Public in the 21st Century

dc.contributor.author	Hausman, Bernice
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dept. of English	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-07T17:21:34Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-07T17:21:34Z
dc.date.issued	2016-03-01
dc.description	Presented on March 1, 2016 in the Stephen C. Hall building, room 102 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.	en_US
dc.description	Bernice Hausman is a faculty affiliate in Women’s and Gender Studies, ASPECT, and Science and Technology in Society. She is also a professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, where she teaches a humanities course to second-year students and serves as an advisor to students interested in narrative medicine and the medical humanities. Her current research into vaccination involves qualitative ethnographic studies and a book about vaccine skepticism in the 21st century.
dc.description	Runtime: 49:55 minutes
dc.description.abstract	Understanding contemporary vaccination controversy demands sensitive attention to the meaning of scientific evidence i the public sphere. Approaching vaccine skepticism from a rhetorical perspective reveals how vaccination controversy is embedded in its historical context, is responsive to various trends in both medicine and the law, and is not simply the result of scientific illiteracy. This talk will focus on a few specific vaccination controversies in order to highlight how ordinary people on both sides of the issue make decisions about vaccination and represent their own reasoning as deliberative and embedded in their values and world views. The talk may touch on the effect of inflammatory news reporting about vaccination and disease outbreaks on public understanding of the controversy and its possible solutions.	en_US
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dc.format.extent	49:55 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54564
dc.relation.ispartofseries	ICLAST Speaker Series
dc.subject	Controversy	en_US
dc.subject	Public	en_US
dc.subject	Rhetoric	en_US
dc.subject	Vaccination	en_US
dc.title	Vaccination and the Public in the 21st Century	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Lecture
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