...Sarah E. Gollust Anna Kirkland . Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury . New York : New York University Press , 2016 . 288 pp. $40.00 cloth. Meredith Wadman . The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease . New York : Viking...

...John A. Bartlett Christine Grady. The Search for an AIDS Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventive AIDS Vaccine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 193 pp. $26.50 cloth. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...

... protection for other products, both medical and nonmedical. The public health benefits of community-wide vaccination against con- tagious diseases are well documented (Avery 1994: 67–70). The reduced morbidity and mortality enjoyed by vaccinees, their immediate contacts, and other community members...

...Patrick J. Chester; Victor Shih Abstract What motivates state-sponsored vaccine misinformation campaigns, given clear scientific evidence of vaccines' efficacy? We explore this issue through the lens of state-owned presses published in mainland China and in Hong Kong. We first collect an original...

...Herschel Nachlis; Kyle Thomson Abstract Context : Regulatory approaches to COVID-19 vaccine authorizations varied substantially across countries. Facing a common public health threat, what accounts for regulatory variation? This study focuses on emergency pharmaceutical and vaccine regulatory...

...June Park Abstract This study investigates South Korea's trials-and-errors in procuring COVID-19 vaccines from abroad, amid the limitations of a multilateral scheme for global provision through the COVAX Facility via the World Health Organization (WHO) and the discussions on COVID-19 vaccine patent...

...Mirella Cacace; Michele Castelli; Federico Toth Abstract Context : A key task for countries around the world facing the COVID-19 pandemic was to achieve high vaccination coverage of the population. To overcome 'vaccination inertia', governments adopted a variety of policy instruments...

...Anna Kirkland The last dozen years have seen a massive transnational mobilization of the legal, political, and research communities in response to the worrisome hypothesis that vaccines could have a link to childhood autism and other developmental conditions. Vaccine critics, some already organized...

... because unimmunized children go to school or day care when they are contagious but asymptomatic, exposing many more children to potentially dangerous infections. The risks to children from disease are much higher than the risks of vaccines. There are, of course, some bona fide reasons why children should...

...Douglas J. Opel; Douglas S. Diekema Lantos and colleagues (this issue) propose to eliminate personal belief exemptions from school vaccine mandates, particularly for those vaccines that target deadly contagious childhood disease. They argue that not doing so would be unjust. In this counterpoint...

...Efthimios Parasidis Abstract Vaccine-hesitant parents are often portrayed as misinformed dilettantes clinging to unscientific Internet chatter and a debunked study that linked the MMR vaccine and autism. While this depiction may be an accurate portrayal of a small (but vocal) subset, scholars have...

...David C. Mowery; Violaine Mitchell Since taking office, President Clinton has devoted considerable attention to childhood immunization and to the overall U.S. policy toward vaccine development, delivery, and pricing. But the reliability of U.S. vaccine supplies has received far less attention...