LEADER 03763nam 22006015 450 001 9910890181503321 005 20240930130239.0 010 $a9783031705595 010 $a3031705599 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-70559-5 035 $a(CKB)36247725700041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31694878 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31694878 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-70559-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936247725700041 100 $a20240930d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnti-Vaccination and the Media $eHistorical Perspectives /$fby Allison Cavanagh 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (143 pages) 311 08$a9783031705588 311 08$a3031705580 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Metaphor and representation in the mediation of illness -- Chapter 3: Relational and 'big data' approaches to representation in understanding illness -- Chapter 4: Polio -- Chapter 5: Pertussis -- Chapter 6: Covid discourses, populist and academic -- Chapter 7: Conclusion. 330 $aThis 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. Allison Cavanagh is a lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. 606 $aCommunication in medicine 606 $aScience in popular culture 606 $aCommunication in science 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aHealth Communication 606 $aPublic Understanding of Science 606 $aHistory of Science 615 0$aCommunication in medicine. 615 0$aScience in popular culture. 615 0$aCommunication in science. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 14$aHealth Communication. 615 24$aPublic Understanding of Science. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 676 $a614.4 700 $aCavanagh$b Allison$01719493 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910890181503321 996 $aAnti-Vaccination and the Media$94264164 997 $aUNINA