Resisting Mandatory Vaccination: the Formation of the "Informed Parent" in the Czech Republic

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Resisting Mandatory Vaccination: the Formation of the "Informed Parent" in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Czech Republic belongs among countries with rigid mandatory vaccination system regulated by the state. To let children vaccinate is considered as an unquestionable norm supported by formal sanctions for those who would not take part in such practice. This paper focuses on parents who challenge such norm with their decision to refuse their child&apos;s immunization. Twenty-two parents whose children were not vaccinated were interviewed and several participant observations were conducted at public lectures concerning immunization and on meetings of parent who actively take part in the debates against compulsory vaccination. Firstly, the paper examines how the parents&apos; attitudes to health, body and biomedicine become integrated into their attitudes toward vaccination. It uses the concept of biological citizenship to analyze how the attitudes toward biomedicine and vaccination serve as a foundation for the formation of new biosocialities. It shows how the debates concerning vaccination give rise to subjectivities of parents who claim specific rights based on shared definitions of risk, stances towards biomedicine and notions of individual responsibility towards one&apos;s own health. Those parents consciously and systematically construct their own credibility as &quot;informed parents&quot; that is used as key resource while legitimizing their decision. Secondly, the paper focuses on the conditions of emergence and existence of anti-vaccination movement in the Czech society. It maps how the collective identity of parents becomes articulated through the attitudes toward biomedicine and vaccination. The paper explores the ways in which parental attitudes towards vaccination facilitates emergence of novel forms of collectivities that allow for generating new and alternative forms of knowledge and resistance against the dominant biomedical knowledge.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Resisting Mandatory Vaccination: the Formation of the "Informed Parent" in the Czech Republic

Popis výsledku anglicky

Czech Republic belongs among countries with rigid mandatory vaccination system regulated by the state. To let children vaccinate is considered as an unquestionable norm supported by formal sanctions for those who would not take part in such practice. This paper focuses on parents who challenge such norm with their decision to refuse their child&apos;s immunization. Twenty-two parents whose children were not vaccinated were interviewed and several participant observations were conducted at public lectures concerning immunization and on meetings of parent who actively take part in the debates against compulsory vaccination. Firstly, the paper examines how the parents&apos; attitudes to health, body and biomedicine become integrated into their attitudes toward vaccination. It uses the concept of biological citizenship to analyze how the attitudes toward biomedicine and vaccination serve as a foundation for the formation of new biosocialities. It shows how the debates concerning vaccination give rise to subjectivities of parents who claim specific rights based on shared definitions of risk, stances towards biomedicine and notions of individual responsibility towards one&apos;s own health. Those parents consciously and systematically construct their own credibility as &quot;informed parents&quot; that is used as key resource while legitimizing their decision. Secondly, the paper focuses on the conditions of emergence and existence of anti-vaccination movement in the Czech society. It maps how the collective identity of parents becomes articulated through the attitudes toward biomedicine and vaccination. The paper explores the ways in which parental attitudes towards vaccination facilitates emergence of novel forms of collectivities that allow for generating new and alternative forms of knowledge and resistance against the dominant biomedical knowledge.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA13-18411S" target="_blank" >GA13-18411S: Biologické občanství: formy guvernance a resistence vůči biomedicínskému vědění v kontextu České republiky.</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Rebellious Parents. Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia

ISBN

978-0-253-02626-2

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

223-247

Počet stran knihy

364

Název nakladatele

Indiana University Press

Místo vydání

Bloomington

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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