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Abstract
Advocates of homeopathic vaccines, also known as nosodes, reimagined the risks and benefits of vaccination from 1999 to 2015 by comparing "risky" vaccines to "risk-free" nosodes. I argue that nosodes allowed for a complementary argument to anti-vaccine discourse, fundamentally altering what had been framed as a choice between the risks of vaccination and the risks of vaccine-preventable disease. Despite evidence of their efficacy being flawed, advocates presented nosodes as an alternative to vaccines and a middle ground between anti-vaccination and vaccination. While a campaign from 2013 to 2015 tried to expose nosodes as ineffective, I argue that the campaign was unsuccessful. Instead, the mainstream media brought more attention to nosodes. The history of nosodes further complicates the history of vaccines and alternative medicine in Canada by adding vaccine alternatives to the growing literature on vaccine hesitancy.
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The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d"histoire de la médecine is the official organ of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine/ Société canadienne d"histoire de la médecine and is the primary outlet in Canada for refereed scholarship in the history of medicine. This journal, published twice yearly, presents articles, notes, review articles, and book reviews in French and in English. No aspect of the general field is excluded as a matter of policy, though the particular focus is on scholarship in Canadian medical history.
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