Derek Cameron PhD Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Erika DyckMy dissertation, "Manufacturing Dissent: Anti-Vaccination Networks in Canada," expands the work I began in my master's interrogating the role of risk and choice discourse in anti-vaccine rhetoric. I trace how government actions galvanized the budding anti-vaccine movement in English Canada. I also show that West created a series of strategic alliances to generate new critiques of vaccination from marginalized Canadians.
Research Area(s)
- History of Medicine
- History of Vaccine Rejection
- History of Youth
- Canadian History
Publications
“‘Imagine the Perfect Vaccine’: Homeopathic Vaccine Alternatives and Vaccine Discourse in English Canada,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. (accepted)
Conference Presentations
“The Homeopathic Vaccine and its Effect on Canadian Anti-vaccine Discourse from 1987-2016.” Paper presented at the 7th Manitoba Ontario Minnesota Saskatchewan History of Medicine Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 28-29, 2019.