Book Review: Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science by Maya J. Goldenberg

Rebekah McWhirter

doi:10.3138/ijfab-15.1.br03

Book Review: Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science by Maya J. Goldenberg

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Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science
by Maya J. Goldenberg
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021

At a book event in March last year—one year into the pandemic and four months after mass immunization programs began—Goldenberg voiced her concerns about the timing of her book’s launch into the world (UC Centre for Public Engagement with Science 2021). This anxiety is echoed in the preface of the book itself, where she notes that the emergence of a global pandemic as she completed five years of work threatened to introduce a whole new set of issues that might fundamentally alter the book’s arguments. Goldenberg’s concern is understandable: since the publication of her book, it is undeniable that public trust in vaccines and the experts who advocate for them have been constant topics of debate...

Original language	English
Pages	202-205
Number of pages	4
Volume	15
No.	1
Specialist publication	International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3138/ijfab-15.1.br03
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2022
Externally published	Yes

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