...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...

...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...

... compensation plans for tort-based consumer 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Sara E. Abiola; James Colgrove; Michelle M. Mello This article explores the political dimensions of policy formation for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine through case studies of six states: California, Indiana, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, and Virginia. Using thematic content analysis of...

...Figure 2 Number of Vaccine-Related Bills Introduced by State Legislative Session Figure 2. Number of Vaccine-Related Bills Introduced by State Legislative Session ...

...Matthew A. Baum This study assesses the relationship between political partisanship and attitudes and behavior with respect to the H1N1 virus (swine flu) crisis of 2009 in general, and the U.S. mass vaccination program in particular. I argue that even seemingly nonpartisan political issues like...

...Harold A. Pollack © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Point-­Counterpoint Personal Belief Exemptions for Vaccines Harold A. Pollack University of Chicago In this...

...James Colgrove Nadja Durbach. Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 276 pp. $79.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. Duke University Press 2006 Books...

... Errata for Anna Kirkland, “The Legitimacy of Vaccine Critics: What Is Left after the Autism Hypothesis?” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 37, no. 1 (February 2012): . On page 80, the text starting with “The foundation was also the source” should read as follows: The foundation was also...

... and they had relied on physicians to inform their patients of the dangers. But because of the government’s polio campaign, the vaccine was generally dispensed in mass clinics and immunization centers, where there was little (if any) indi- vidualized discussion between vaccinees and...

... light of comparative examples in the context of workplace injuries, automobile injuries, and vaccine injuries. We conclude by examining conditions that may facilitate or impede progress toward establishing demonstration projects of health courts. Duke University Press 2008 Abraham, K. S., and P...

... IVIG. Market mechanisms have now largely alleviated the shortage and significantly reduced its detrimental impact on patients. However, future shortages of IVIG or other scarce medical products,such as vaccines and antibiotics, would benefit from more immediate and coordinated efforts not only to make...

... doctor prescribes. Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières 2013 ) recently reported that the cost of a basic vaccine series in developing countries has risen 2,700 percent. In the United States, more than one hundred oncologists united to protest the high, monopoly prices of new cancer drugs...

... of implementation, the fiasco might have been avoided. They would have recognized the multiplicity of participants and perspectives and would have been forced to question the basic assumptions of the Program: that manufacturers could and would produce enough vaccine in the specified time...