Health and Rights in the Vaccine-Critical Movement
Health and Rights in the Vaccine-Critical Movement
This chapter introduces the leaders, organizations, and underpinning ideologies of the vaccine-critical social movement mobilized around the vaccine court. Activists understand fundamental concepts like risk, harm, health, and parental duty in ways that are incompatible with the mainstream, and these divergences in turn help explain why they do not see vaccine court evidence in the same way. They perceive themselves as fighting for individual health freedom at the same time as they muster an aggrieved and vulnerable minority status to protest vaccination and to criticize the vaccine court.
Keywords: activists, ideology, health freedom, anti-vaccine, vaccine critics
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