Publication : Il y a des alternatives. Une autre histoire des médicaments (XIXe-XXIe siècle)

Cassier M., Il y a des alternatives: Une autre histoire des médicaments (XIXe-XXIe siècle), Seuil, Paris, 384 p, 2023. À partir de 2020, des entreprises pharmaceutiques ont rendu opérationnelles, en un temps record, de nouvelles technologies vaccinales qui ont contribué à surmonter la crise du Covid-19. Toutefois, ces multinationales, qui avaient breveté leurs vaccins, les…

Publication : Politisation et rapports ordinaires aux vaccins. Premiers enseignements de l’épidémie de Covid-19

Ward, Jeremy K. « Politisation et rapports ordinaires aux vaccins. Premiers enseignements de l’épidémie de Covid-19 », L’Année sociologique, vol. 73, no. 2, 2023, pp. 267-294. https://doi.org/10.3917/anso.232.0267 L’influence des identités et croyances politiques sur les attitudes à l’égard d’une grande diversité d’aspects de l’épidémie de Covid-19 a été soulignée dès les débuts de cette crise. Dans cet article,…

Conference : Panel : Beyond polarisation : approaches to vaccination; European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) conference in Amsterdam

Convenors: Lesley Branagan (Hamburg University), Anna Dowrick (University of Oxford), Rebecca Cassidy (University of Kent), Simon Bailey (University of Kent). https://www.easst4s2024.net/open-panels/#14363 The Covid pandemic brought significant transformations in the technologies, roles, governance, discourses and meanings of vaccines. The technological and political promise of Covid vaccines has left limited space for exploration of their unintended consequences….

Conference : Vax-Trust project final conference. Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Europe. 6–7 February 2024 in Tampere, Finland and online

https://vax-trust.eu/final-conference/ Vaccine hesitancy is not a novel phenomenon as it has existed since the invention of vaccines; however, it has notably increased in recent years and its role has further been accentuated by the Covid pandemic. To we are organising an international conference on 6–7 February 2024 in Tampere, Finland and online. The conference, including expert…

Publication: Vaccination acceptability in the French general population and related determinants, 2000-2021

Vaux S, Gautier A, Nassany O, Bonmarin I. Vaccination acceptability in the French general population and related determinants, 2000-2021. Vaccine. 2023 Oct 6;41(42):6281-6290. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.08.062. Background: This study describes the evolution of vaccination acceptability and associated determinants in the French general population between 2000 and 2021, and vaccinations with the highest vaccine hesitancy between 2010…

Publication: Healthcare professionals’ attitudes to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination: Cross-sectional survey data from four European countries

Linda C. Karlsson, Amanda Garrison , Dawn Holford , Angelo Fasce , Stephan Lewandowsky, Frederike Taubert, Philipp Schmid, Cornelia Betsch, Fernanda Rodrigues, Lisa Fressard, Pierre Verger, and Anna Soveri, Healthcare professionals’ attitudes to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination: Cross-sectional survey data from four European countries, Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, Aug;19(2):2256442, 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37724556/ Mandatory vaccinations are widely debated…

Publication: Endorsement of alternative medicine and vaccine hesitancy among physicians: A cross-sectional study in four European countries

Fasce A, Karlsson L, Verger P, Mäki O, Taubert F, Garrison A, Schmid P, Holford DL, Lewandowsky S, Rodrigues F, Betsch C, Soveri A., Endorsement of alternative medicine and vaccine hesitancy among physicians: A cross-sectional study in four European countries, Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics,19(2): 2242748, 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37581343/ Vaccine hesitancy has become a threat to public health,…

Publication: International adaptation and validation of the Pro-VC-Be: measuring the psychosocial determinants of vaccine confidence in healthcare professionals in European countries

Garrison A, Karlsson L, Fressard L, Fasce A, Rodrigues F, Schmid P, Taubert F, Holford D, Lewandowsky S, Nynäs P, Anderson EC, Gagneur A, Dubé E, Soveri A, Verger P, International adaptation and validation of the Pro-VC-Be: measuring the psychosocial determinants of vaccine confidence in healthcare professionals in European countries, Expert revies of vaccines, 22(1):726-737, 2023….

Publication: Diversity of attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and vaccines: A representative cross-sectional study in France

J.K. Ward, F Gauna, M Deml, N MacKendrick, P Peretti-Watel, Endorsement of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and vaccine attitudes: A representative cross-sectional study in France, Social Science & Medicine, Vol 7, N°1, 2023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37245262/ How much does endorsement of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) correlate with negative attitudes towards vaccines? One of the difficulties…