Book Review

摘要

Ideologically, infectious diseases are a threat to neoliberalist ideals of individualism because the risk of infection reveals that the boundaries of the self are permeable and that we are inescapably interconnected. Mandatory vaccination rubs up against an individual’s right to make his or her own medical decisions. Recently in the media, deaths that could have been prevented through vaccination have reached headlines worldwide, with contemporary dissent for vaccines under intense scrutiny. by John Rhodes is a timely publication that shows that misinformed dissent for vaccines has existed ever since the very first vaccine was administered in 1796.