The Vaccine Narrative

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[ 199 ] Index aaP. See american academy of Pediatrics abortion and CRs, 63–72 and law, 65, 77 opposition to, 77, 81–82 and rubella, 63–72 as a social problem, 70 spontaneous vs. induced, 69 therapeutic abortion, 64–65, 67, 70, 77 aCiP. see advisory Committee on immunization Practices aCT UP. See aiDs Coalition to Unleash Power active immunity. See immunity adverse effects iOM report on, 78–79, 83, 107–8 patients’ recourse after, 150 of pertussis vaccine, 79 and public perceptions, 153 of rubella vaccine, 73–75, 79, 91 and tort liability, 107, 129–31 of vaccines, 21, 72, 80, 83, 147, 149 See also individual diseases advisory Committee on immunization Practices (aCiP), 71, 77, 153 aiDs. See hiv/aiDs aiDs Coalition to Unleash Power (aCTUP), 124, 128, 138 aiDsvax, 162n11 allopathic (regular) physicians, 19, 24–25, 92, 158n3 aMa. See american Medical association american academy of Pediatrics (aaP), 85, 89, 100, 153 american College of Physicians, 79 American Journal of Public Health, 131 american Medical association (aMa), 60, 86, 100 and abortion, 64–65, 159n6 Council of Pharmacy and Chemistry, 51, 53, 89 And the Band Played On (shilts), 145 anthrax disease, 16, 99 vaccine, 18, 35, 54 antibiotics, 20, 25, 66, 88, 112, 158n8 anti-diphtheria vaccination program, 19 anti-pertussis activists, 86, 109, 111 anti-vaccination modern movement, 97 protests, 18 as stereotype, 23 use of internet, 83, 106 anti-vaccination society of america, 17 arthritis, 73–75, 78–79, 107 avian flu pandemic, 151 bacteriological laboratories, 19, 37, 40–42, 44, 53, 55 Bennet, William J., 161n5 bioterrorism, 149, 151 birth defects, 62–64, 66, 69, 81. See also congenital rubella syndrome booster vaccines, 153 Brazil, 132–33 Buckley, William F., Jr., 113 Canada, 48 CDC. See Centers for Disease Control CDCP. See Centers for Disease Control Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 21, 85, 88, 100, 112, 134, 144 cervical cancer, 1, 148, 151, 162n1. See also human papilloma virus chicken pox vaccine, 21, 153 vaccine efficacy, 157n1 childhood diseases, 77 children protection of, 76 victims of polio, 20 chimpanzee challenge trials, 124 Chiron Corp., 143–44 cholera, 31–32, 150 chronic disease, 7, 20, 112 t h e v a c c i n e n a r r a t i v e [ 200 ] clinical cases and pertussis, 103 as research evidence, 38, 42, 44 See also evidence clinical trials described, 121–22 and hiv/aiDs, 118, 132 evidentiary threshold, 124 See also hiv/aiDs vaccine complete control. See eradication programs condom use, 122–23, 137, 155, 160n2 confidence in medicine, 75 congenital rubella syndrome (CRs), 63–77 described, 58 epidemic, 68, 81 rates, 65, 68, 77 risk of, 64–65 See also abortion; rubella content analysis, 28 counter-narratives, 108 CRs. See congenital rubella syndrome cultural narratives described, 5, 7–8, 212 mutability of, 146 of vaccines, 22 See also vaccine narrative Cutter Pharmaceuticals, 6, 104, 106, 125, 129 Death in Venice (Mann), 31 Department of Defense, 127 diphtheria antitoxin, 35, 37, 38, 50, 54 and “complete control,” 40–41, 47–49, 63 disease, 20, 37, 57, 94 epidemics, 150 mass vaccination, 146 moral crusade against diphtheria, 41 morbidity and mortality, 39, 47, 50, 63 researchers, 20 toxin-antitoxin, 36–38, 41–42, 47, 50–51 toxin-antitoxin vaccination campaign, 38, 45, 62, 76, 81 toxoid, 37, 48, 53 vaccine, 16, 49, 53, 59–60, 76, 79, 89 and vaccine narrative, 54–55 vaccine story, 76 diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccine, 48, 84–86, 89 disease healthy carriers, 37, 47, 72 paradigms, 35 victims (“innocent” and “guilty”), 113 Dissatisfied Parents Together, 87–88, 93, 95–104, 106–10, 160n3 DPT vaccine. See diphtheria-pertussistetanus vaccine “DPT: vaccine Roulette” (Tv broadcast), 84–88, 101, 106 DTaP vaccine, 108 efficacy standards, 124, 127, 132 eigo, Jim, 124 epidemics, 16, 18, 20, 67 equipoise, 120, 122–23, 126, 134. See also ethical rules for research eradication programs, 21, 42, 146. See also individual diseases esparza, Jose, 134 ethical rules for research, 119–20, 122 evidence changing standards, 41, 55, 93 individual patient (case study), 28, 42–45, 50, 104 numbers-based, 45 population-based, 42, 44, 64 of vaccine safety vs. efficacy, 105–6 expertise, 101 exporting research, 131 Fauci, anthony, 126, 161n3 FDa. See Food and Drug administration fermentation, 32 fetal rights, 78 “fetal wastage,” 69–70, 72, 81 Fisher, Barbara loe, 95 Flexner Report, 18–19, 36 fluoridation, 92, 97, 102 Food and Drug administration, 68, 85, 124, 150 Food, Drug and Cosmetics...