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For some, vaccination may raise fears, but for others, access to vaccination is still an unrealized goal.

People avoid vaccination for various reasons, ranging from fear that vaccines will damage their immune systems to suspicions about components in the vaccines. Eula Biss, author of On Immunity -- which examines the history of vaccines and the metaphors we use to think about them -- joins Laurie Zoloth, Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, to discuss the ethics of vaccine refusal.

Event is free and open to the public.

This lecture is part of the Evanston Northwestern Humanities Lecture Series, which brings together Northwestern faculty and the Evanston community in discussion about current research. Presented by Northwestern's Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Evanston Public Library.