Tag: Vaccination
This study analyzes “SHOTS,” a World War II-era postcard depicting a soldier receiving a vaccine while an observer watches with concern. “SHOTS” is an example of vintage postcard…
Here, an argument was advanced that taking a long historical view—in this case, considering satirical health messaging of the late 19th century—offered potential insight into modern health messaging,…
The artifacts raise important questions about vaccination rhetoric, the effects of comical depictions of health issues, and the unique opportunities afforded by postal rhetoric. Josh Compton At first…
The primary argumentation strategy, this analysis offers, is inoculation, or the pairing of counterattitudinal content with refutations, thereby weakening the counterattitudinal content, that parallels the medical practice of…
The conflation of inoculation terminology with a non-inoculation process likely only adds to these confusing, potentially dangerous, public statements on health from a religious leader. Josh Compton https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15348423.2019.1696122…
Extant work is encouraging, and timely, while consequential scientific issues are ripe for attention from an inoculation perspective. Josh Compton, Sander van der linden, john cook, & melisa…
I offer this case that Osler’s redemption message was not one of education, but instead, of inoculation. Josh Compton One such specific purpose of Man’s Redemption of Man,…
I offer this case that Osler’s redemption message was not one of education, but instead, of inoculation. Josh Compton https://www.unco.edu/sassi/SASSIPROCEEDINGSII.pdf One such specific purpose of Man’s Redemption of…
Cooper’s unique rhetorical strategy remains useful for considering contemporary debates over medical inoculation. Josh Compton & Brian Kaylor http://www.relcomm.org/journal-of-communication-and-religion.html The early 18th century rhetoric of Boston minister William…
We find particular aptness when considering inoculation as a persuasive strategy in the context of smallpox inoculation rhetoric: Cooper attempts to inoculate (attitudinal) against anti-inoculation (biological) rhetoric. Josh…