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Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Canada: Results of a consultation study by the Canadian Immunization Research Network
(Public Library of Science, 2016-06-03)
“Vaccine hesitancy” is a concept now frequently used in vaccination discourse. The increased popularity of this concept in both academic and public health circles is challenging previously held perspectives that individual ...
Exploring the post-genomic world: differing explanatory and manipulatory functions of post-genomic sciences
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-02-25)
Richard Lewontin proposed that the ability of a scientific field to create a narrative for public understanding garners it social relevance. This article applies Lewontin’s conceptual framework of the functions of science ...
Ambiguous Capture: Collaborative Capitalism and the Meningitis Vaccine Project
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-04-21)
The primary health care approach advanced at Alma Ata to address social determinants of health was replaced by selective health care a year later at Bellagio. Subsequently, immunization was endorsed as a cost-effective ...
Just Evidence: Opening Health Knowledge to a Parliament of Evidence
(CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group, 2016)
In this chapter, we present a complementary perspective to the oceans theme of this volume by ethnographically engaging the circulation of scientific knowledge and evidence in a different but comparable policy decision-making ...