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Discourses of Distrust: How Lack of Trust in the U.S. Health-Care System Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Amy Casselman-Hontalas, Dominique Adams-Santos, Celeste Watkins-Hayes
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2024, 10 (4) 154-172; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.07
Amy Casselman-Hontalas
aPhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University, United States
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Dominique Adams-Santos
bManaging director at the Center for Racial Justice, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, United States
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes
cJean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy at University of Michigan, United States
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vol. 10 no. 4 154-172
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.07

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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2377-8253
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  • Published online August 26, 2024.

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© 2024 Russell Sage Foundation. Casselman-Hontalas, Amy, Dominique Adams-Santos, and Celeste Watkins-Hayes. 2024. “Discourses of Distrust: How Lack of Trust in the U.S. Health-Care System Shaped COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10(4): 154–72. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.07. Direct correspondence to: Amy Casselman-Hontalas, at amylcass@stanford.edu, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 120, Room 160, Stanford, CA, 94305-2047, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Amy Casselman-Hontalasa,
  2. Dominique Adams-Santosb and
  3. Celeste Watkins-Hayesc
  1. aPhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University, United States
  2. bManaging director at the Center for Racial Justice, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, United States
  3. cJean E. Fairfax Collegiate Professor of Public Policy at University of Michigan, United States
  1. Correspondence author:
    Amy Casselman-Hontalas, (amylcass{at}stanford.edu)
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