Vaccine wars : the two-hundred-year fight for school vaccinations

Vaccine wars : the two-hundred-year fight for school vaccinations / Kim Tolley.

"As protests over vaccine mandates increase in the twenty-first century, many people have raised concerns about a growing opposition to school vaccination requirements. What triggered anti-vaccine activism in the past, and why does it continue today? Americans have struggled with questions like...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tolley, Kimberley (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
Series:Project Muse ebook purchased.
Subjects:
Vaccination of children > United States > History.
Vaccine mandates > United States > History.
Vaccine hesitancy > United States > History.
Anti-vaccination movement > United States > History.
Children.
Immunization.
Anti-vaccination movement.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The rise of school vaccination laws
  • 2. The national anti-vaccination societies and the schools
  • 3. Taking schools to court: the legal battles
  • 4. Schools against vaccination mandates: a case study
  • 5. Schools and the campaign against polio
  • 6. Schools in the age of eradication
  • 7. Vaccine hesitancy and the rise of personal belief exemptions
  • 8. The twenty-first century effort to preserve immunity in schools
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: selected court cases and rulings cited in the text, 1830-2021.

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