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Volume 3, Issue 4: Vaccines and humanized medicine

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    Vaccines and humanized medicine   Maya J. Goldenberg,  Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021, pp. xii + 251. Hardcover ISBN  978-0-8229-4655-7.  $45.00     When Maya Goldenberg, philosopher at the University of Guelph, has started to write her book on  Vaccine Hesitancy , she did not have a clue that by the time of publication, it will be so actual. Many consider vaccines as the most effective preventing tool of the coronavirus pandemic, and though many countries are producing nice numbers, vaccines are still surrounded by uncertainty, misbeliefs, and mistrust. Goldenberg’s book will not change the world, of course, but her remarkable views and sop histicated approach will emerge from the literature.              In 1998, Andrew Wakefield published a study in the world’s oldest journal,  The Lanc...