03946nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-70559-5 DE-He213 20251030113117.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240930s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031705595 978-3-031-70559-5 10.1007/978-3-031-70559-5 doi R118-119.9 JFD bicssc GTC bicssc SOC052000 bisacsh JBCT thema GTC thema Cavanagh, Allison. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 85336 Anti-Vaccination and the Media [electronic resource] : Historical Perspectives / by Allison Cavanagh. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. IX, 141 p. 5 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 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. This 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. Communication in medicine. 63864 Science in popular culture. 80892 Communication in science. 65873 Science History. 65232 Health Communication. 62524 Public Understanding of Science. 80893 History of Science. 66101 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031705588 Printed edition: 9783031705601 Printed edition: 9783031705618 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70559-5 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 63871 63871