Vaccines, Pesticides, and Narratives of Exposure and Evidence

Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 297 - 326
Published: Jul 14, 2017
Abstract
This essay considers the cultural work performed by two public health narratives - the DDT narrative and the vaccine narrative - as they appeared in popular and professional discourse concerning two recent media events: controversy over an antivaccination film, and the emergence of a Zika global public health emergency. Like all narratives in the history of medicine, the stories historians and others tell about DDT and about vaccines organize a...
Paper Details
Title
Vaccines, Pesticides, and Narratives of Exposure and Evidence
Published Date
Jul 14, 2017
Volume
34
Issue
2
Pages
297 - 326
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