The color of creatorship: intellectual property, race, and the making of Americans

Abstract

very small issues. Kirkland is a master of the material and her meticulous scholarship has much to commend it. This book should be of great interest to her intended audiences in socio-legal studies and STS. Medical sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and scholars of health policy will also find this book valuable as it generates important insights that usefully inform broader debates about and understandings of vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine social movements. “Vaccine Court” was written before the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has arguably given vaccination a new social and political significance and visibility. Though at the time of writing this review, COVID-19 vaccines are not on the list of vaccines eligible for compensation via the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (at least whilst a declaration of a public health emergency remains in place), it will be interesting to observe if and how these vaccines and any claims of harm reflect and potentially shape the epistemic politics of vaccine injury more generally.