Public Health in the Age of Anxiety

Paul Bramadat is a professor and director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. His previous works include Religious Radicalization in Canada and Beyond and Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada both published by University of Toronto Press. Maryse Guay is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Universite de Sherbrooke. Julie A. Bettinger is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and a vaccine safety scientist at the Vaccine Evaluation Center at the University of British Columbia. Real Roy is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Victoria.

Introduction and Theory Introduction: Seeking a Better Conversation Paul Bramadat 1. Crises of Trust and Truth: Religion, Culture, and Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada Paul Bramadat 2. Vaccine Hesitancy: Ethical Considerations from Multiple Perspectives Kieran C. O'Doherty, Christine Smith, and C. Meghan McMurtry 3. The Role of Risk Perception in Vaccine Hesitancy and the Challenge of Communication Conrad G. Brunk HISTORY 4. Learning from Smallpox Inoculation Refusal: Early Scientific Debates and the Evolution of Vaccine Refusal Real Roy 5. Not Without Risk: The Complex History of Vaccine Resistance in Central Canada, 1885-1960 Heather MacDougall and Laurence Monnais Biomedicine, the State and Vaccine Hesitant/Rejecting Communities 6. A Portrait of Vaccine-hesitant Canadians Maryse Guay, Eve Dube, and Caroline Laberge 7. Vaccine Hesitancy and the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Eve Dube, Chantal Sauvageau, and Dominique Gagnon 8. Epidemiologic Trends in Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization in Canada Julie A. Bettinger and Shannon E. MacDonald 9. Canada's Vaccine Safety System Monika Naus, Barbara Law, and Aline Rifret vaccine politics IN Clinical, MEDIA, and community SETTINGS 10. "It's Your Body, Your Decision": An Anthropological Exploration of HPV Vaccine Hesitancy: Jennafer Roberts and Lisa M. Mitchell 11. Approaching Vaccine-hesitant Parents - The Clinician's Perspective Francois D. Boucher 12. The Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy Andre Picard 13. Public Health and Personal Heuristics Noni E. MacDonald CONCLUSION 14. Continuing the Conversation Paul Bramadat, Julie A. Bettinger, and Maryse Guay APPENDIX INDEX Contributors