ELENA CONIS is assistant professor of history at Emory University.

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92376-5 (cloth)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92377-2 (e-book)

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226923772.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Conis, Elena, author.

Vaccine nation: America’s changing relationship with immunization / Elena Conis.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-226-92376-5 (cloth : alkaline paper) —

ISBN 978-0-226-92377-2 (e-book)

1. Vaccination—United States—History—20th century. I. Title.

RA638.C66 2015

614.4′70973—dc23 2014009846

Portions of chapter 8 appeared in the Journal of Medical Humanities: “‘Do We Really Need Hepatitis B on the Second Day of Life?’: Vaccination Mandates and Shifting Representations of Hepatitis B,” Journal of Medical Humanities 32, no. 2 (2011): 155–66.

A version of chapter 5 previously appeared in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Copyright © 2013 The Johns Hopkins University Press: “A Mother’s Responsibility: Women, Medicine, and the Rise of Contemporary Vaccine Skepticism in the U.S.,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87, no. 3 (2013): 407–35.

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