These questions pertain to chapters 6 through the conclusion of Reich’s (2016) book. You have been randomly assigned a question. Please cite specific information from Reich’s book in response and your response must be 200-300 words if you want full credit.
When parents practice “natural solutions” to preventing illness and infection, whose children are perceived to be diseased? How do these parents manage illness prevention when they take their children out of the country to develop their cultural capital? In other words, how do they maintain the “imagined gated community” while fulfilling their desire to develop their child’s cultural capital? And, at whose expense does this happen?
Reich, J.A.Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines. New York: New York University Press. 2016. 328pp £20.99 (hbk) ISBN 9781479812790 – Wilson – 2017 – Sociology of Health & Illness – Wiley Online Library
