Why we can’t agree about vaccines | Bernice Hausman | TEDxPSU

NOTE: The ideas in this talk are philosophical and based in social analysis. They do not necessarily reflect Dr. Hausman's personal practices and should not be interpreted as medical guidance. TEDx events are independently organized by volunteers.

More information about the speaker’s work can be found here:
1. https://sites.psu.edu/humanities/bernice-hausman/
2. https://pure.psu.edu/en/persons/bernice-l-hausman/publications/
3. https://www.oneducation.net/no-08_september-2020/against-misinformation/
4. https://hdl.handle.net/10919/79918

Vaccination choices divide individuals and communities in pluralist societies. In this provocative talk, Prof. Bernice Hausman explores vaccination controversy and the layers of meaning within it. She addresses philosophical disagreements about personal and public health, the distracting problem of misinformation, questions about responsibility toward vulnerable others, and the role of illness in being human. By examining the multiple cultural meanings of vaccination and illness, she shows that the way forward is not through science but through understanding our differences.

Bernice L. Hausman is the Garner James Cline Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Chair of the Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine. Prior to her appointment at Penn State, she spent twenty-three years in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. Dr. Hausman has a bachelor’s degree in Literature from Yale University and a doctoral degree in Feminist Studies and Critical Theory from the University of Iowa. She is an internationally recognized expert on medicine and culture, with expertise in breastfeeding and motherhood, transgender history, and vaccination controversy. She is the author of four single-authored books and numerous peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Her most recent book, Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy (Cornell, 2019), challenges the public to understand vaccine dissent as a persistent and culturally meaningful aspect of modern societies. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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