Jacqueline James
ABSTRACT
Scholars in TPC have called for research that evaluates the relationship between advocacy and technical communication practices. Current public health vaccination efforts are currently struggling to reach those who are underserved, vaccine hesitant, or anti-vaccination. This project takes up the efforts of people with polio and post-polio syndrome to participate in vaccine advocacy in order to theorize how public health efforts might approach vaccine outreach in other contexts, like COVID-19. Using a combination of interviews and web content analysis, I draw attention to the ways that visible disability and the health consequences of a still unfolding epidemic intersect with stigma, ableism, public memory, and healthcare access.
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