Vaccines in Society

Tom Douglass is a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He is a sociologist by background and has research interests within health and social care. He has worked on a range of qualitative and mixed methods research projects concerned with vaccine hesitancy, patient complaints and care home closures. Alistair Anderson is a geographer with research interests in health behaviours and veterinary medicine. As a mixed-methods social researcher, he has worked on projects concerning antibiotic stewardship, vaccine hesitancy, and the experience of work in the veterinary profession.

• 1 Introduction: How Social are Vaccines?.- 2 A Social History of Vaccines.- 3 Social Values, Politics and Power.- 3 Relations in the Development and Regulation of Vaccines.- 4 Vaccines in Media.- 5 Vaccine Inequalities.- 6 Animals and Vaccination.- 7 Conclusion and Future Research Agenda.