Below are accounts of vaccination from several authors. By Sarah Perkins Check crossed fingers hovering over search bar. Google local vaccines in your area. Kill time looking for time slots. Rinse. Repeat. You are too young for your community centre to care about your well-being. Look elsewhere. Check sweat-slick fingers on steering wheel out of…
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Vaccination in Older Adults: Erasure, Barriers, and Hesitancy (Part Three)
By Patricia Harte-Maxwell The future may not be known, but current examples of vaccination securing life and opening doors exist. For example, vaccinations are recommended for travellers visiting countries where polio is endemic; some schools, like medical programs, and occupations require vaccinations to shadow or work in clinics and hospitals; and, related back to the…
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By Patricia Harte-Maxwell Looking to the beginnings of variolation in England reveals that children were already regarded as the center of immunization – a product, I suggest, of smallpox – and that objection also already existed. Charles Maitland, in Mr Maitland’s Account of Inoculating the Small Pox from 1722, recounts variolation cases dealing mainly with…
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Authored by Patricia Harte-Maxwell The history of vaccination and vaccine culture in the Global North has since the 18th century been predominantly concerned with the health and lives of children, such as this post from Medical News Today which recognizes myths fuelling anti-vaccination as referring only to children. However, children have always only made up…
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