3232.0 Vaccination Controversies in Historical Perspective

Monday, October 29, 2012: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
American history provides examples of skepticsm and resistance to vaccination programs, as well as successful vaccination programs and popular acceptance of vaccination. Session 3232.0 presents analysis of experts whose work covers several periods of the United States' experience with vaccination, providing an intellectual history of vaccination that will help inform contemporary considerations for vaccination programs.
Session Objectives: Analyze historical and current controversies regarding vaccination policies and interventions, through several perspectives focusing on public health ethics.
Moderator:
Kathleen Powderly, CNM, PhD
Discussant:
James Colgrove, PhD, MPH

12:30pm
A historian's assessment of the current intellectual politics of vaccination
Robert Johnston, PhD
12:50pm
Adult vaccination and the Health Belief Model: Historical lessons about vaccine controversy from polio and the 1976 National Influenza Immunization Program
Heidi Lawrence, MA
     
1:10pm
Examining the ideological inheritance of contemporary vaccine skepticism
Elena Conis, MS, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Ethics SPIG
Endorsed by: Epidemiology, Socialist Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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