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Aliens, Scientific Methods and Risks. Health Care Professionals Opposed to Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Argentina

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We analyze the ways in which different researchers and health professionals in Argentina (physicians, biochemists, epidemiologists) develop their arguments against mass vaccination against COVID-19. In particular, we explore how these positions are related to the mobilization of scientific knowledge-or arguments compatible with scientific reasoning-and to issues related to other interests (professional, political, economic, among others). Our aim is to advance the understanding of a potentially contradictory position: that of researchers and health professionals who hold positions that contradict some of the principles that hegemonically articulate the professional field.

Source: Medical Anthropology

DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2025.2540528

Authors: Juan Pablo Zabala, Pablo R. Kreimer

Institution: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Language: English

Topic: Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

Subfield: Health

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación