University of Wrocław, Department of Sociology, Poland; The Centre for Civil Rights and Democracy Research, Poland.
The Centre for Civil Rights and Democracy Research, Poland.
Vaccine. 2019 Mar 7;37(11):1491-1494. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.01.073. Epub 2019 Feb 10.
The article analyses the cultural and political contexts of the revival of the anti-vaccine movement in Poland. According to the authors, the attempt to institutionalise and politicise anti-vaccine activists is part of the wider phenomenon of political populism in Eastern Europe. The attempt to abolish compulsory vaccinations, which is supported by right-wing populists, shows that the anti-Enlightenment and anti-Western shift in the public sphere in Eastern Europe can also affect the area of health protection. Western pharmaceutical concerns may be the same target of populist attacks as refugees and migrants. The authors claim that, like in the case of political nationalism, a widespread educational campaign and bottom-up social legal and political measures need to be implemented to combat disinformation about vaccination.
本文分析了波兰反疫苗运动复兴的文化和政治背景。作者认为，将反疫苗活动人士制度化和政治化的尝试是东欧政治民粹主义更广泛现象的一部分。右翼民粹主义者支持取消强制性疫苗接种，这表明东欧公共领域的反启蒙和反西方转变也可能影响到卫生保护领域。西方制药公司可能成为民粹主义攻击的目标，就像难民和移民一样。作者声称，就像政治民族主义一样，需要开展广泛的教育运动，并采取自下而上的社会法律和政治措施，来打击有关疫苗接种的虚假信息。
