Anti-Vaccination and the Media: Historical Perspectives

Cavanagh, Allison

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-01
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 143
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031705580
  • ISBN-13: 9783031705588
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商品描述

This book explores narratives of vaccine hesitancy using samples from the UK press, and looks at the ways these have changed between the 1950s and the present. The work draws on a variety of research instruments including semantic network analysis and analysis of metaphor to provide a rich description of anti-vaccine narratives in different historical periods.


The work considers the ways that concerns about and resistance to inoculation were informed by cultural and social pressures in two case studies, firstly that of polio in the 1950s and secondly the so called 'pertussis crisis' of the 1970s, wherein a period of social activism and newspaper campaigning led UK and US governments to offer compensation schemes for vaccine damaged children. The studies chosen provide a detailed comparison of the politics of childhood inoculation over two eras in the UK.
Chapters also cover the use of metaphor and representational analysis in health communication, comparing ways in which the work of Moscovici, Sontag and other theorists can be used to provide complementary insights, and the affordances and concerns around the use of 'big data' analyses in historical work. The work also features discussion of the implications of the findings for approaches to more recent vaccination crisis points. This book argues that anti-vaccination narratives, far from showing a stable and coherent set of concerns, are highly mutable. The work compares anti-vaccination and conspiracy theory narratives, drawing out areas of continuity and schism.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討了疫苗猶豫的敘事,使用來自英國媒體的樣本,並考察了這些敘事在1950年代至今的變化。該研究運用了多種研究工具,包括語義網絡分析和隱喻分析,以提供不同歷史時期反疫苗敘事的豐富描述。

本書考慮了對接種的擔憂和抵制是如何受到文化和社會壓力影響的,通過兩個案例研究進行探討:首先是1950年代的脊髓灰質炎,其次是1970年代所謂的「百日咳危機」,在這一時期,社會運動和報紙運動促使英國和美國政府為疫苗受害兒童提供賠償計劃。所選的研究提供了對英國兩個時期兒童接種政治的詳細比較。

各章節還涵蓋了隱喻和表徵分析在健康傳播中的應用,對比了Moscovici、Sontag及其他理論家的研究如何提供互補的見解,以及在歷史研究中使用「大數據」分析的優勢和擔憂。本書還討論了研究結果對於更近期疫苗接種危機的應對方式的影響。本書主張,反疫苗敘事遠非顯示出一套穩定且一致的擔憂,而是高度可變的。該研究比較了反疫苗和陰謀論敘事,揭示了持續性和分歧的領域。

作者簡介

Allison Cavanagh is a lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Allison Cavanagh 是英國利茲大學媒體與傳播的講師。