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 Université 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.Réal Roy is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Victoria.

• Introduction and TheoryIntroduction: Seeking a Better ConversationPaul Bramadat1. Crises of Trust and Truth: Religion, Culture, and Vaccine Hesitancy in CanadaPaul Bramadat2. Vaccine Hesitancy: Ethical Considerations from Multiple PerspectivesKieran C. O’Doherty, Christine Smith, and C. Meghan McMurtry3. The Role of Risk Perception in Vaccine Hesitancy and the Challenge of CommunicationConrad G. BrunkHISTORY4. Learning from Smallpox Inoculation Refusal: Early Scientific Debates and the Evolution of Vaccine RefusalRéal Roy5. Not Without Risk: The Complex History of Vaccine Resistance in Central Canada, 1885-1960Heather MacDougall and Laurence MonnaisBiomedicine, the State and Vaccine Hesitant/Rejecting Communities6. A Portrait of Vaccine-hesitant CanadiansMaryse Guay, Ève Dubé, and Caroline Laberge7. Vaccine Hesitancy and the use of Complementary and Alternative MedicineÈve Dubé, Chantal Sauvageau, and Dominique Gagnon8. Epidemiologic Trends in Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization in CanadaJulie A. Bettinger and Shannon E. MacDonald9. Canada’s Vaccine Safety SystemMonika Naus, Barbara Law, and Aline RifretVaccine Politics in Clinical, Media, and Community Settings10. "It’s Your Body, Your Decision": An Anthropological Exploration of HPV Vaccine Hesitancy:Jennafer Roberts and Lisa M. Mitchell11. Approaching Vaccine-hesitant Parents – The Clinician's PerspectiveFrançois D. Boucher12. The Roots of Vaccine HesitancyAndré Picard13. Public Health and Personal HeuristicsNoni E. MacDonaldCONCLUSION14. Continuing the ConversationPaul Bramadat, Julie A. Bettinger, and Maryse GuayAPPENDIXINDEXContributors