The politics of vaccination : : a global history /

The politics of vaccination : : a global history / / edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume, and Paul Greenough.

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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...

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Superior document:Social histories of medicine
TeilnehmendeR:
Greenough, Paul R.
Blume, Stuart S., 1942-
Holmberg, Christine,
Manchester University Press,
Place / Publishing House:Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Social histories of medicine.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Previously issued in print: 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Paul Greenough, Stuart Blume and Christine Holmberg
  • Part I: Vaccination and national identity
  • 1. The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 / Paul Greenough
  • 2. Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy - the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India / Niels Brimnes
  • 3. Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe / Dora Vargha
  • 4. 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns / Eun Kyung Choi and Young-Gyung Paik
  • Part II: Nationality, vaccine production, and the end of sovereign manufacture
  • 5. Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth and twentieth century Mexico / Ana María Carrillo
  • 6. The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands / Stuart Blume
  • 7. Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation / Jaime Benchimol
  • 8. A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan / Julia Yongue
  • Part III: Vaccination, the individual, and society
  • 9. The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media / Andrea Stöckl and Anna Smajdor
  • 10. Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden / Britta Lundgren and Martin Holmberg
  • 11. Polio vaccination, political authority, and the Nigerian state / Elisha Renne
  • Afterword
  • 12. The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns / Bill Muraskin
  • Index.

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