Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Vaccination Stories and Why I Wrote This Book
1. So What Bothers You about Vaccines?
2. Immune to Reason
3. Whom Do You Trust?
4. Being a Responsible Parent
5. Is Vaccine Refusal a Form of Science Denial?
6. What Are Facts, and How Do We Trust Them?
7. Medicalization and Biomedicalization
8. Antimedicine in Theory and Practice
9. Viral Imaginations
10. Anti/Vax
Conclusion: What Vaccination Controversy Can Teach Us about Medicine and Modernity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Bernice L. Hausman is Chair of the Department of Humanities at the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Viral Mothers, Mother's Milk, and Changing Sex.