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Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines Hardcover – June 21, 2016

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Winner, 2018 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association Medical Sociology Section

Winner, 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociology Association

Honorable Mention, 2017 ESS Mirra Komarovsky Book Award presented by the Eastern Sociological Society

Outstanding Book Award for the Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity presented by the American Sociological Association

A rich, multi-faceted examination into the attitudes and beliefs of parents who choose not to immunize their children

The measles outbreak at Disneyland in December 2014 spread to a half-dozen U.S. states and sickened 147 people. It is just one recent incident that the medical community blames on the nation’s falling vaccination rates. Still, many parents continue to claim that the risks that vaccines pose to their children are far greater than their benefits. Given the research and the unanimity of opinion within the medical community, many ask how such parents―who are most likely to be white, college educated, and with a family income over $75,000―could hold such beliefs.

For over a decade, Jennifer Reich has been studying the phenomenon of vaccine refusal from the perspectives of parents who distrust vaccines and the corporations that make them, as well as the health care providers and policy makers who see them as essential to ensuring community health. Reich reveals how parents who opt out of vaccinations see their decision: what they fear, what they hope to control, and what they believe is in their child’s best interest. Based on interviews with parents who fully reject vaccines as well as those who believe in “slow vax,” or altering the number of and time between vaccinations, the author provides a fascinating account of these parents’ points of view.

Placing these stories in dialogue with those of pediatricians who see the devastation that can be caused by vaccine-preventable diseases and the policy makers who aim to create healthy communities, Calling the Shots offers a unique opportunity to understand the points of disagreement on what is best for children, communities, and public health, and the ways in which we can bridge these differences.

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"Several recent books have delved into the history and science of vaccines and immunity, and the anxieties that accompany them. Jennifer Reich … brings meticulousness and sensitivity to this emotional issue. … It is Reich’s book that may prove the most convincing to anti-vaxxers." -- New York Review of Books

"Risk is one of the operative words central to sociologist Jennifer Reichs remarkably calm book on current vaccination practices in North America. Risk is what parents, paediatricians and policymakers must evaluate in their roles as caregivers, primary-care doctors and advisers The group of parents Reich interviewed over a 10-year period that has informed this book are the university-educated ubermoms who favour organic food and have a tendency to avoid gluten and dairy productsThe doctors Reich interviewed recognise that some vaccination is better than none and that being patronising, bossy or confrontational is not in the best interest of the child or the wider community. It is a stance Reich shares." ― Times Higher Education

"Recent outbreaks of preventable diseases such as measles and whooping cough are focusing attention on this issue, making Reich's able contribution especially pertinent." ― Kirkus Reviews

"In her engaging book,Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, Jennifer Reich focuses on this last group of privileged, vocal parents, a group with the potential to disrupt the balance of infectious disease control across the country. This exceptionally timely book also confronts the challenges posed by science skepticism amid a declining sense of public obligation and the increasing dictate that health is each familys personal responsibility." ― Contemporary Sociology

"Jennifer Reichs new book, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, is an essential contribution to the story of vaccines in contemporary U.S. society that should make it impossible to tell such simple stories about vaccine resisters any longer." ― American Journal of Sociology

"A timely intervention into recent anti-vaccination controversies, Jennifer Reich’s Calling the Shots unpacks the logics behind vaccine refusal through interviews and ethnographic studies of parents who refuse vaccinations." -- Science, Medicine, and Anthropology

"Calling the Shots is intellectually rigorous and politically engaged scholarship of the highest quality. Jennifer Reich illuminates the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors surrounding childhood immunization, one of the most important and contested public health policy issues of our day. Debates about vaccine refusal have too often been marked by over-simplification and unfounded assumptions, and Reichs thorough, meticulous analysis provides a much-needed corrective.-James Colgrove,author of State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth" ― Century America

"Calling the Shots treads confidently into the explosive terrain of vaccine refusal. In this must-read exploration of the burdens of modern mothering, Reich takes seriously the desires of mothers to make their own decisions to protect their children from risks. But she also shows how anti-vaccine stances by the privileged few may undermine the social compact and threaten the public good. This is a well-written, important, and very timely book." -- Steven Epstein,author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

"In this gripping book, Reich illumines the processes through which (mostly affluent) parents reject vaccines. The book impressively situates these anti-vaccine parents in a broader context. Reich carefully documents how a range of organizations including medical offices, drug companies, and child protective servicesare all players in this social drama. Reichs concept of & individualistic parenting is valuable. Since parents decisions can have dire consequences for other children, the book is not only interesting, but it is of enormous social significance.Highly recommended!" -- Annette Lareau,author of Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

About the Author

Jennifer Reich is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Denver. Her publications include the award-winning books Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines and Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ NYU Press; 1st edition (June 21, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 147981279X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1479812790
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 1.1 x 9.1 inches

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Jennifer A. Reich is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research explores the intersections between the state and family. She earned her doctorate in Sociology from the University of California, Davis and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in healthy policy at the University of California, San Francisco. She is author of the award winning books, Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System (2005 Routledge) and Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines (2016 NYU Press) as well as numerous articles and book chapters that examine reproductive decision-making, welfare and charity provision, multi-racial families, children's views of the child welfare system, how parents decide to opt out of childhood vaccinations, and qualitative research methods.

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Joanna

Essential reading on the vaccination debate

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Ever wonder why some parents decide not to vaccinate their children, despite broad scientific consensus that vaccines are safe and essential for public health? In clear and accessible prose, Jennifer Reich provides a sharp, yet empathetic analysis of why "anti-vaxxers" make these seemingly illogical decisions. Each chapter introduces us to a new facet of this debate: safety, risk, expertise, trust, and ideas about what makes a good parent all play an important role. Of particular interest are Reich's chapter on the history of vaccination, which sheds much-needed light on the power of the state to make decisions about citizens' bodily integrity, as well as her conclusion, which provides suggestions for improving vaccination rates.

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Chastity Blankenship

Good Quality Research but Dry

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Still haven’t made it all the way through this book because it’s really dry. It’s based on well-documented research, interviews, and historical accounts. Good for sociologists wanting to learn more.

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Barbara Gregory

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 23, 2016

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I've been eager to have resources like this one in order to, when asked, engage wisely in conversations with young parents. This book provides information on both sides of the issues of the full course of vaccinations, a partial course of vaccinations, or no vaccinations.

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Poor College Students

Contains Ablest language, whitewashes the issues, and is positively bias towards anti-vaxx

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 8, 2021

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Although the author claims that she believes in vaccines there are multiple times in the book where she says that she was convinced by the ant-vaxx claims. One such time was when she talked about an ablest man who blamed a condition his child had on vaccines because they had gotten a vaxx when they where diagnosed. If the author or man had taken two seconds they would have found out the disability tends to show up around that age. Yet instead our author talks about how she was worried about her kids who just got that same vaxx. Through out the book the author uses ablest language and is totally fine putting in ablest views without any mention of how horrific they where. Like when parents stated they would rather have a dead then disabled child. she talked about how she was sympathetic to this view as a mother.

Not even to mention how her "history" of vaccines section was missing ALL the race stuff.

Also she states that this book takes ALL anti-vaxxers into account. However, her sample was 95% middle class, college educated, middle aged, white, American, women. which is not all anti-vaxxers now is it. especially since there are black anti-vaxx groups who are such for different reasons then the privilege Karens of the world of anti-vaxx.

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it was for my daughter; she's satisfied but she says it's just OK

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Amy G Dala

A 'must read' book on vaccinations

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 1, 2016

As deep as it is impactful, Reich's Calling The Shots is a must-read book for people on all sides of the vaccination debate. With a great deal of empathy, Reich takes a measured approach to understanding the values and strategies behind parents' decisions to not vaccinate their children, or to alter their vaccination schedules, but then also broadens the scope to give readers a grip on the wider political and medical climate that shapes those seemingly individualistic decisions. The issue of vaccines, we learn, sits at the intersection between our individual rights and the collective responsibilities to the public good; a sensitive contact point between our ideas of the self and our society.

Each chapter introduces readers to people who are on all ends of the debate, giving voice to everyday folks (not just celebrities like Jenny McCarthy) to shed new light on issues of risk, safety, expertise, professions, the medical industry, and even the very concept of 'nature' in childrearing. We learn about how Paula sees vaccine schedules as not matching with what she perceives as her family's unique combination of risk factors, how Katie aims to manage her child's risks rather than vaccination, and how Margaret sees vaccines as 'unnatural' and a risk unto themselves. We hear from anti-vaccine chiropractors and from health care professionals who meet with concerned parents on a daily basis.

Regardless of one's prejudices and opinions, reading this book will enlighten. Detailed and lively, Calling The Shots will surely improve the national debate on this absolutely critical issue. Bravo!

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Brett M. Winton

thorough and well-constructed examination of all sides of declining vaccination rates

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2019

Reich draws a clear and compelling through-line from hyper-involved parenting styles to the decision to delay or entirely avoid vaccinations. Well-constructed and balanced. Inspires empathy and sadness.

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Monica

Well-researched & fair portrayal of the vaccine debate

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 22, 2020

In this book, Dr. Reich seeks to do something that hasn't been done in the pro- and anti-vaccine debates: she seeks to bypass the back-and-forth claims that the opposing party is unenlightened, and get at the root of WHY the vaccine debate is happening. The author does a fantastic job of laying out the social roots of the anti-vax movement, seeking not to blame her informants or twist their view of the world, but to uncover the reasons why anti-vaxxers hold the beliefs they do about vaccines (hint: it's not lack of education - far from it).

Highly recommend reading this book, which offers not only analysis of the existing debate but solutions to ameliorate it.

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