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E-book Vaccine Rhetorics
In The US, school boards, doctors, parents, and citizens have two options when it comes to vaccination: compulsion or persuasion. People are com-pelled to vaccinate largely through laws and policies that restrict access to essential sites and spaces—namely, schools and jobs—on the basis of vaccina-tion status. As James Colgrove and others have observed, historically compul-sion has been highly successful at achieving higher rates of vaccination in the US. Or, as Emily Oster and Geoffrey Kocks most poignantly state: “changing minds on vaccination is very difficult, but it isn’t so important when a law can change behavior.”Some could say that in 2019, at the writing of this book, we are in the midst of a robust movement in favor of compulsion in America. The 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts Supreme Court case set the nationwide precedent allowing states to mandate vaccination, and vaccine mandates for school entry in par-ticular have been imposed to ensure that children are protected from disease.
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