Ergur Ali
Department of Sociology, Galatasaray University, İstanbul, Turkey.
Eurasian J Med. 2020 Jun;52(2):217-223. doi: 10.5152/eurasianjmed.2020.20132.
As most of the diseases that ravaged human collectivities through millennia have been cured by scientific tools offered to the use of medicine particularly from the Industrial Revolution onwards, vaccination played a crucial role in it. Once conceived as a significant public function, vaccination has been one of the most salient signs of regulatory and social reformist state power. However, together with the rise of globalization and the general state of fluidity stemming from it, on the one hand, communication technology has diffused diverse information around the world, particularly the false ones, and on the other hand, a widespread critical climate against modern conceptions has been formed. In this context of complex reality, vaccination has lost its undoubted public function and meaning. Since 1990s in the world and 2000s in Turkey, we observe a significant, though proportionally still meagre, tendency of refusal or hesitation concerning vaccines, mostly among parents. We analyze this tendency as complex assemblage of causes, both in economic and philosophical dimensions, a multiplex phenomenon which should be understood essentially in a general framework of critique against modernity.
由于数千年来肆虐人类群体的大多数疾病已通过特别是从工业革命起提供给医学使用的科学工具得以治愈，疫苗接种在其中发挥了关键作用。疫苗接种一旦被视为一项重要的公共职能，便一直是监管和社会改革派国家权力最显著的标志之一。然而，一方面，随着全球化的兴起以及由此产生的普遍流动性状况，通信技术在全球传播了各种信息，尤其是虚假信息；另一方面，针对现代观念形成了广泛的批判氛围。在这种复杂的现实背景下，疫苗接种已失去其毋庸置疑的公共职能和意义。自20世纪90年代起在全球以及21世纪初在土耳其，我们观察到一种显著的、尽管比例上仍然很小的拒绝或犹豫接种疫苗的倾向，主要存在于父母当中。我们将这种倾向分析为经济和哲学层面复杂的成因组合，这是一种多元现象，本质上应在对现代性的总体批判框架中加以理解。
