Public Health in the Age of Anxiety PAPERBACK 9781487520120

Public Health in the Age of AnxietyReligious and Cultural Roots of Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada\nAuthor(s): Paul Bramadat, Maryse Guay, Julie Bettinger, Ral Roy, Centre for Studies in Religion & Society\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487520120, 978-1487520120\nSynopsis\nControversies and scepticism surrounding vaccinations, though not new, have increasingly come to the fore as more individuals decide not to inoculate themselves or their children for cultural, religious, or other reasons. Their personal decisions put the rights of the individual on a collision course with public and community safety.\n\n Public Health in the Age of Anxiety enhances both the public and scholarly understanding of the motivations behind vaccine hesitancy in Canada. The volume brings into conversation people working within such fields as philosophy, medicine, epidemiology, history, nursing, anthropology, public pol.