A cumulative book review of: Conis, E.Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization, Chicago: University of Chicago Press2015. 361 pp $18 (pbk) $18 (ebk) ISBN 978‐0‐22637839‐8 Reich, J.A.Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, New York: New York University Press2016. 336 pp $75 (cloth) $20.00 (pbk) ISBN 978‐1‐47981279‐0 Holmberg, C., Blume, S. and Greenough, P.R. (eds) The Politics of Vaccination: A Global History, Manchester: Manchester University Press2017. 360 pp £96 (cloth) £96 (ebk) ISBN 978‐1‐5261‐1088‐6

In recent years, the issue of compulsory and mass vaccinations has acquired increasing relevance in the public health field. Inquiries have been conducted from medical, epidemiological and healthcare perspectives, as well as in social, historical and anthropological sciences; the latter have empirically studied the multifaceted movement rather simplistically referred to as ‘anti-vax’. Hence, they have brought to light a wide range of different attitudes, motivations and positions with regard to vaccinations. The three volumes discussed in this review are written by scholars in the social sciences and humanities and offer a non-medical view on the phenomenon of immunisation. They are very different yet at the same time complementary books in terms of the disciplines they represent: Elena Conis is a historian of medicine and public health (with a BA in biology); Jennifer Reich is a sociologist; and the third volume is edited by Christine Holmberg (a healthcare anthropologist), Stuart Blume (a science sociologist with a Ph.D. in chemistry) and Paul Greenough (a historian of medicine).