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SUMMARY:Contextualizing the Modern Era of Vaccination - Elena Conis (Unive
 rsity of California\, Berkeley)
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DESCRIPTION:Hesitancy toward vaccination has been a constant since the pra
 ctice’s inception at the end of the eighteenth century\, yet the mid-twe
 ntieth century introduced a complex paradox: the simultaneous rise of vacc
 ine skepticism and the mass acceptance of compulsory childhood immunizatio
 n. This presentation examines how historical trends in religious\, politic
 al\, and secular objections to vaccination have persisted and mutated over
  the last 200 years. It will describe the impact of modern social drivers
 —including shifting gender roles\, environmental concerns\, economic imp
 eratives\, and the valuation of children—on vaccination discourse from t
 he latter-twentieth century to today. This historical contextualization wi
 ll offer insight into how today’s vaccination resistance and rejection b
 oth mirror and depart from the past.\n\n*Professor Elena Conis* is a histo
 rian of science and medicine whose research focuses on scientific controve
 rsies\, science denial\, and the public understanding of science. She is t
 he author of _How to Sell a Poison: The Rise\, Fall\, and Toxic Return of 
 DDT_\, which received the 2024 William H. Welch Medal and was a finalist f
 or the 2023 National Association of Science Writers Book Award\; _Vaccine 
 Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization_\, which receive
 d the 2015 Arthur J. Viseltear Award\; and\, with Aimee Medeiros and Sandr
 a Eder\, _Pink and Blue: Gender\, Culture and the Health of Children_. Her
  current book project\, _Measles: A Global History_\, is under contract wi
 th Polity Press. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment
  for the Humanities\, the National Institutes of Health/National Library o
 f Medicine\, and the Science History Institute.\nSpeakers:\nElena Conis (U
 niversity of California\, Berkeley)
LOCATION:St Anne's College (Tsuzuki Theatre)\, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
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