economics of anti-vaccinationism
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO The Lupina Foundation & Comparative Program on Health and Society at the Munk Centre for International Studies in the University of Toronto
present “Science and Democratic Decision Making: The Case of the British Royal Commission on Vaccination and the Repeal of Compulsory Vaccination in England, 1889 1907”
by Dr. Jennifer Keelan (CPHS & SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow)
Dr. Keelan is a CPHS and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow. Her work has focused on late nineteenth anti-vaccinationism and the social and medical factors involved in early epidemiological reasoning for compulsory vaccination including the calculations of risk, and public testimony about medical science. Dr. Keelan's present research project compares the attempts to repeal compulsory vaccination in the United States, Canada and the UK at the turn of the century. She is particularly interested in how diverse social groups experienced and understand risk and how this intersected with popular notions of medical authority and expertise in the public sphere. Dr. Keelan has also been engaged in a project examining the development of the Canadian National Immunization Strategy and its implications for intergovernmental relations and jurisdictional ambiguities over public health. She is the co-editor of Crafting Immunity: Working Histories of Immunological Practice (Ashgate Press, 2006) and has presented her work at a number of international conferences, including most recently at Harvard University and Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, Exeter UK.
Wednesday, 12 OCTOBER 2005, 12 Noon - 2 pm, Room 208N Munk Centre for International Studies in the University of Toronto Munk Centre http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/