Vaccine Hesitancy in the Nordic Countries Trust and Distrust During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Main Author: Borin, Lars
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2024; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Annan humaniora och konst; anthropology; authority; communication; Communication Policy; Communication studies; coronavirus; COVID-19; Cultural and media studies; Denmark; Finland; government; Health, illness and addiction: social aspects; healthcare systems; hesitancy; History; History and Archaeology; Interdisciplinary studies; Media and Communication Studies; Media and Communications; Media Studies; Medical sociology; Medicine and Nursing; Medicine: general issues; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Medie-, kommunikations-, och informationsvetenskaper; Medievetenskap; Nonfiction; Nordic region; Norway; Other Humanities; pandemic; pharmaceutical companies; Political activism / Political engagement; Political campaigning and advertising; Political Science; politicians; Politics; Politics and government; Public Policy; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; reluctance; resistance; Samhällsvetenskap; Scandinavia; scepticism; science; side-effects; skepticism; Social and ethical issues; Social Science; Social Sciences; social trust; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Sweden; trust; vaccination; vaccine; trust; politics; side-effects; sociology; pandemic; media studies; Scandinavia; healthcare systems; reluctance; COVID-19; Sweden; government; communication; scepticism; anthropology; Nordic region; coronavirus; hesitancy; skepticism; politicians; resistance; social trust; vaccine; Norway; Finland; science; authority; Denmark; vaccination; pharmaceutical companies
• ISBN: 9781032305998; 9781032306001; 1032305991; 1032306009; 9781040011676; 1040011675; 1003305857; 9781003305859
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003305859

Bringing together studies from across the Nordic region, this book examines the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on vaccine hesitancy. Shedding light on the political tensions that emerged as a result of the pandemic and the debates that ensued both within and between the Nordic nations, it investigates the vociferous discussions surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines and their presumed negative side effects through the lens of trust; trust in and between the neighbouring countries, in healthcare systems, fellow citizens, and experts; in public authorities, politicians, researchers, journalists, and pharmaceutical companies. The first volume to explore vaccine hesitancy in the Scandinavian context, this ground-breaking volume offers fresh perspectives on vaccine scepticism not as a form of ignorance or lack of knowledge, but as a manifestation of a more fundamental lack of faith in modern government and science. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, politics, anthropology, media studies, communication and cultural studies with interests in public health, popular and political discourse and questions of public trust. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.