Psychology Today | 19.05.2026 20:22
“There has always been vaccine hesitancy,” religious studies scholar Kira Ganga Kieffer argues of the United States in Unvaccinated Under God: Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America, published today by Princeton University Press. “Since their inception in the late eighteenth century,” with efforts to inoculate against smallpox in colonial Massachusetts, “vaccines have provoked moral quandaries, and sometimes vigorous disagreement, among everyday Americans.”
