The Politics of Vaccination
A Global History
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Contributor(s)
Holmberg, Christine (editor)
Blume, Stuart (editor)
Greenough, Paul (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times, in widely different places and under different types of political regime.
Core themes in the chapters include immunisation as an element of state formation; citizens' articulation of seeing (or not seeing) their needs incorporated into public health practice; allegations that donors of development aid have too much influence on third-world health policies; and an ideological shift that regards vaccines more as profitable commodities than as essential tools of public health. A novel lens through which to view changes in concepts of 'society' and 'nation' over time.
Keywords
History; Vaccination; History; Medicine; Social and Cultural History; Immunisation; Public Health; Polio; ThoriumISBN
9781526110916Publisher
Manchester University PressPublisher website
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/Publication date and place
Manchester, 2017-03-16Grantor
Series
Social Histories of Medicine,Classification
History of medicine