ArticleCulture, medicine and psychiatry2022
"A Free People, Controlled Only by God": Circulating and Converting Criticism of Vaccination in Jerusalem.
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- A taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments from a systematic literature review and text modelling.Nature human behaviour · 2023Pooled it
- Barriers and enablers to vaccination in the ultra-orthodox Jewish population: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Heterogeneity in vaccination attitudes and behavior within an outwardly homogenous religious group: a cross-sectional study of the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish population in Safed, Israel.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Differences in timeliness, completeness and drop-out rates of MMRV and DTP containing vaccines among Ultra-Orthodox Jews and others in a deprived Northern Israel city: an ecological study.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Poliovirus outbreak in New York State, August 2022: qualitative assessment of immediate public health responses and priorities for improving vaccine coverage.Epidemiology and infection · 2023Article
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- "We think this way as a society!": Community-level science literacy among ultra-Orthodox Jews.Public understanding of science (Bristol, England) · 2022Article
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- "If a rabbi did say 'you have to vaccinate,' we wouldn't": Unveiling the secular logics of religious exemption and opposition to vaccination.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
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Abstract
This paper explores how criticism surrounding the ethics and safety of biomedical technologies circulates and 'converts' through global-local religious encounters, producing new claims of moral opposition and rights to religious freedom. The paper is concerned with the question of what rhetorical devices make vaccine safety doubt relevant to religiously Orthodox settings and what implications arise? Based on an ethnographic study of vaccine decision-making and non-vaccination advocacy in Jerusalem, the paper examines how opposition is forged amidst evolving global-local encounters and relations. The data reveal how Christian activists attempt to engender ethical and moral opposition to vaccination among American Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem by 'converting' public criticism around safety into a religious discourse of bodily governance. Pinpointing how critiques of biomedical technologies discursively 'convert' offers a conceptual template in anthropology to chart how counter-positions are formed and transformed amidst evolving tensions between biomedical and religious cosmologies.
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