7. Medicalization and Biomedicalization

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Vaccination Stories and Why I Wrote This Book 1
5. 1. So What Bothers You about Vaccines? 16
6. 2. Immune to Reason 36
7. 3. Whom Do You Trust? 49
8. 4. Being a Responsible Parent 67
9. 5. Is Vaccine Refusal a Form of Science Denial? 87
10. 6. What Are Facts, and How Do We Trust Them? 110
11. 7. Medicalization and Biomedicalization 131
12. 8. Antimedicine in Theory and Practice 153
13. 9. Viral Imaginations 175
14. 10. Anti/Vax 194
15. Conclusion: What Vaccination Controversy Can Teach Us about Medicine and Modernity 211
16. Notes 221
17. Bibliography 245
18. Index 265