<i>Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture‐From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS.</i> Emily Martin

Napier, A. David

doi:10.1525/aa.1996.98.4.02a00640

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“…In this article, I report on quantitative findings, but the article is focused primarily on qualitative findings and the emergence of new frames for understanding and discussing vaccination as well as the durability of old frames. This approach and scope are informed by anthropologist Martin's (1994) method of analyzing diverse texts (in Martin's study, interviews) as a holistic representation of available discourses, what Martin (1994) has described as a "collectively produced text, a kind of encyclopedia of what a diverse population thinks is sayable, imaginable, or thinkable about health, illness, the body, and society" (p. 10). I take a similar approach, and, although there are important analytical insights to be offered in how Covid nonvaccination coverage changed over time and across text-types, I focus on the major frames that emerged for writing about Covid nonvaccination.…”

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Who’s a Vaccine Skeptic? Framing Vaccine Hesitancy in Post-Covid News Coverage

Campeau

2023

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U.S. print news coverage of Covid vaccine hesitancy represents a departure from previous depictions of vaccine skepticism as a problem of wrong belief. This article reports on a mixed methods study of 334 New York Times texts about Covid nonvaccination and vaccine hesitancy published between December 2020–December 2021. Texts were analyzed for common themes and compared with prior media depictions of vaccine skepticism. Findings show that texts published during phased Covid vaccine distribution framed nonvaccination as a response to structural inequities, while later texts returned to blaming individuals for their hesitancy. These findings attest to the durability of individualistic framings of health while also illustrating possibilities of alternative frames.

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Who’s a Vaccine Skeptic? Framing Vaccine Hesitancy in Post-Covid News Coverage

Campeau

2023

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“…Good hygiene can help stop its spread". Hygiene forms a strong alliance with self-defence immunity, as Martin (1994) pointed out, in the imaginary of the body as fortress assailed by pathogens from outside its boundaries. This way of aligning hygiene with immunity, however, is complicated by the notion of immunity's milieu interieur, which implies that hygiene is not sufficient to protect the individual body.…”

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The immune self, hygiene and performative virtue in general public narratives on antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance

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This paper employs an assemblage lens to generate analyses of general public narratives on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Global efforts to reduce AMR include communications aiming to promote general public awareness, provide knowledge, encourage careful antibiotics use, and discourage demands for them. These efforts are somewhat compromised by the assumptions they make of individual lack of knowledge and motivation and the manner in which the AMR problem is framed in isolation from the biological, social and economic structures that produce it. Conceptualising AMR as an effect of antimicrobial assemblages of which publics are but one part, we analysed interviews with the general public on the lived experience of infections, antibiotic treatments and AMR. Far from science and policy discourse on AMR, these narratives showed antibiotics to be partly solutions to the social and biomedical challenges of infection, framed by self-defensive immunity and hygiene, the affective benefits of ‘immune boosting’, and the imperative to sustain the moral standing of the healthy citizen. Failing public awareness and action on AMR can be attributed to public health messages that overlook the social, affective and moral dimensions of infection care and separate AMR from its socio-economic drivers.

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“…They speculated that, as people increasingly consumed highly processed and chemicalised food that was sourced far from where they lived, their immune systems were more likely to overreact to benign components in food, airborne particles, such as pollen, and even its own tissue. The essay built on Martin's pioneering anthropological research on immunology 23,24 . In terms of dietary change and the rise of peanut allergy, it is worth noting that peanuts and peanut products were consumed in great numbers long before the increase in peanut allergies during the late 1980s.…”

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Historical and social science perspectives on food allergy

Smith

2023

Clin Experimental Allergy

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This article provides an overview of the insights social scientists, historians and other health humanities scholars have made to our understanding of food allergies. It shows how humanities and social science scholars have tended to address three pivotal issues related to food allergies: first, they have addressed the epidemiology of food allergies, including the apparent rise in the rate of food allergies and the emergence of theories that purport to explain why food allergies may be increasing. These include theories related to changes in food consumption and the hygiene hypothesis. Second, humanities and social science scholars have researched how risks related to food allergies have been constructed, understood, experienced and mitigated. Third, humanities and social science scholars have investigated the experiences of food allergy sufferers and those who care for them, providing valuable qualitative insights that can inform how we respond to food allergy and our understanding of the aetiology of food allergy. The article concludes with three recommendations. First, there should be a more interdisciplinary approach to food allergy research that involves social scientists and health humanities scholars. Second, humanities and social sciences scholars should be more willing to unpack and scrutinise the theories put forward to explain the aetiology of food allergies, rather than accepting them at face value. And finally, humanities and social sciences scholars can play a major role in ensuring that the experiences of patients and their carers are articulated and fed into debates about food allergy, including its causes and how to respond to it.

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Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture‐From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Emily Martin

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Who’s a Vaccine Skeptic? Framing Vaccine Hesitancy in Post-Covid News Coverage

Who’s a Vaccine Skeptic? Framing Vaccine Hesitancy in Post-Covid News Coverage

The immune self, hygiene and performative virtue in general public narratives on antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance

Historical and social science perspectives on food allergy

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