Buy new:
-16% $26.89
FREE delivery Thursday, May 16 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35
Ships from: Amazon.com
Sold by: Amazon.com
$26.89 with 16 percent savings
List Price: $32.00

The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. List prices may not necessarily reflect the product's prevailing market price.
Learn more
Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns
FREE delivery Thursday, May 16 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35. Order within 12 hrs 6 mins
Only 17 left in stock (more on the way).
$$26.89 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$26.89
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Ships from
Amazon.com
Ships from
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Sold by
Amazon.com
Returns
30-day easy returns
30-day easy returns
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Returns
30-day easy returns
This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.
Read full return policy
Payment
Secure transaction
Your transaction is secure
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
Payment
Secure transaction
We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more
$16.98
Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE PAPERBACK Standard-sized. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE PAPERBACK Standard-sized. See less
$3.99 delivery May 20 - 24. Details
Or fastest delivery May 16 - 21. Details
Only 1 left in stock - order soon.
$$26.89 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details
Price
Subtotal
$$26.89
Subtotal
Initial payment breakdown
Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout.
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Ships from and sold by midtownscholarbookstore.
Amazon book clubs early access
Loading your book clubs
There was a problem loading your book clubs. Please try again.
Not in a club? Learn more
Amazon book clubs early access

Join or create book clubs

Choose books together

Track your books
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free.
Explore Amazon Book Clubs
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science (Science, Values, and the Public) Paperback – September 28, 2021

by Maya J. Goldenberg (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
See all formats and editions
{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$26.89","priceAmount":26.89,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"26","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"89","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"a4orGMU%2B0mbKkiMW5JZkAvHJpsJ2iCiKQ%2FlP%2FZpdkJvaE%2BlN7OxXrkO3xWxNJfv5L6oxF7JFzSSi5BT%2FDZHMSehpWya19ewqhWzFZ5e0dBkvpjO7DwEuddedjmJji2QHhcOEjrTeP%2BLdK%2BwirHYhfg%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$16.98","priceAmount":16.98,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"16","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"98","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"a4orGMU%2B0mbKkiMW5JZkAvHJpsJ2iCiKpP8nQfy3vr3t%2BrM%2BIDTuCw3Gxp%2BvNDBSrJLwMPz%2FkswF0%2B59FFFmFwUGlPW%2BTJHmNVZMH%2BNoevzQMF67Y4Ng0AGbSQr7yZMe4m3OYt97HTSPnKFBgi%2FAP505gKSUxi0JUAw1Ct97Obw%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

Winner, 2022 PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science Award

The public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield’s findings were later discredited and retracted, and medical and scientific evidence suggests routine immunizations have significantly reduced life-threatening conditions like measles, whooping cough, and polio, vaccine refusal and vaccine-preventable outbreaks are on the rise. This book explores vaccine hesitancy and refusal among parents in the industrialized North. Although biomedical, public health, and popular science literature has focused on a scientifically ignorant public, the real problem, Maya J. Goldenberg argues, lies not in misunderstanding, but in mistrust. Public confidence in scientific institutions and government bodies has been shaken by fraud, research scandals, and misconduct. Her book reveals how vaccine studies sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry, compelling rhetorics from the anti-vaccine movement, and the spread of populist knowledge on social media have all contributed to a public mistrust of the scientific consensus. Importantly, it also emphasizes how historical and current discrimination in health care against marginalized communities continues to shape public perception of institutional trustworthiness. Goldenberg ultimately reframes vaccine hesitancy as a crisis of public trust rather than a war on science, arguing that having good scientific support of vaccine efficacy and safety is not enough. In a fraught communications landscape, Vaccine Hesitancy advocates for trust-building measures that focus on relationships, transparency, and justice.
Read more Read less
Previous page
  1. Part of series
    Science, Values, and the Public
  2. Print length
    264 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    University of Pittsburgh Press
  5. Publication date
    September 28, 2021
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0822966905
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0822966906
  9. See all details
Next page
The Amazon Book Review
The Amazon Book Review
Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

Frequently bought together

Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science (Science, Values, and the Public)
$26.89
Get it as soon as Thursday, May 16
Only 17 left in stock (more on the way).
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
+
Pollution Is Colonialism
$25.95
Get it as soon as Thursday, May 16
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
+
People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
$28.00
Get it as soon as Thursday, May 16
In Stock
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
Total price:
To see our price, add these items to your cart.
Details
Added to Cart
Some of these items ship sooner than the others.
Show details Hide details
Choose items to buy together.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Vaccine Hesitancy is a refreshing reconsideration of how we frame and might reframe public debate about vaccines and vaccination. Maya Goldenberg's argument—that at the foundation of today’s vaccine controversies is a public mistrust of science, not a public misunderstanding of science—offers an important point of view in the larger contemporary debate about vaccine hesitancy. Her book is original and compelling, providing a unique perspective on a topic in urgent need of more critical scholarly attention." —Elena Conis, author of Vaccine Nation: America’s Changing Relationship with Immunization

"Maya J. Goldenberg’s Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science offers both an insightful and a tenable series of analyses, observations, and paths forward that might lead to such long-awaited amelioration, via a reframing of the issue away from a war construction to a paradigm of trust."
 —Journal of Medical Humanities

 

"In 2019, The World Health Organization declared vaccine hesitancy one of the top ten global health threats. How should the phenomenon be understood? Vaccine Hesitancy is a timely response to this pressing issue. Lucidly written, rigorously argued, and comprehensive in scope, Maya Goldenberg's book demonstrates the value of philosophical analysis to contemporary debates. It deserves a wide audience and is essential reading for anyone engaged in public health and medicine. In light of COVID-19, this would include all of us." —Ross Upshur, University of Toronto



“Centering much of her discussion on the vital issue of trust—indeed, on a ‘crisis of trust’ in current social structures and medical practices, and on the fragile status of expertise, even of ‘facts’—Maya Goldenberg argues convincingly for a ‘dialogical’ understanding of trust. This is a concept and a practice for which cooperation becomes a fundamental epistemic value, and epistemic responsibility is a guiding principle.” —Lorraine Code, York University 



“With the steady increase in COVID-19 vaccine supplies, hesitancy and refusal to be vaccinated is becoming a problem for high vaccine coverage in many parts of the world. In her book Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, philosopher Maya Goldenberg provides insights into vaccine hesitancy, its genesis, rationale, and potential solutions using a multi-disciplinary approach to ground the arguments.” —The Lancet

“Goldenberg’s . . . remarkable views and sophisticated approach . . . emerge from the literature.” —HOPOS
 

“Goldenberg presents a fascinating discussion of the complexity of and interrelationships among the myriad factors that result in vaccine hesitancy and refusal. She effectively refutes the idea that such behaviors stem from an inability to understand the science behind vaccines. Rather, she posits that science and public health practitioners should understand that what she terms a ‘crisis of trust’ is the axis around which public skepticism revolves. . . . Highly recommended.” —CHOICE 

“Maya Goldenberg’s timely and well-argued book. . . . provides tools for understanding why rational people might reject policy informed by science. Addressing values directly rather than through the proxy of science means tackling the polarization that creates an environment dangerous for democracy. Goldenberg offers some practical first steps for addressing childhood vaccine hesitancy and in this way also suggests what further work needs to be done if we are to have successful public policy informed by science.” —Philosophy of Science

"Vaccine Hesitancy is concise, but it puts forth a detailed and well-considered argument in simple language that bears much clarity."
—Soumya Swain, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

About the Author

Maya J. Goldenberg is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. Her research centers on the philosophy of science and medicine, with interest in the connection between science and values.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Pittsburgh Press; 1st edition (September 28, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0822966905
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0822966906
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars
4.4 out of 5
14 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Debra Moffitt
5.0 out of 5 stars interesting
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2024
Verified Purchase
My daughter used tis book to write a report. She said it was very interesting
Helpful
 Report
AP
5.0 out of 5 stars Every doctor should read
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2023
Goldenberg reviews the history of science including the good and the bad. She argues we should follow scientific advice but there are legitimate historical and cultural reasons why someone may not. If we want to persuade those people, science needs to take responsibility for its history and work harder to understand naysayers.
Helpful
 Report