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

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations
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Series Social histories of medicine
Social histories of medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I: Vaccination and national identity -- The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 -- Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy: the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India -- Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe -- 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns -- Part II: Nationality, vaccine production and the end of sovereign manufacture -- Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico -- The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands -- Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -- A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan -- Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society -- The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media -- Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden -- Polio vaccination, political authority and the Nigerian state -- The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns.
Summary 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. Above all the essays suggest immunisation offers a novel lens through which to view changes in concepts of 'society' and 'nation' over time.
Note Online resource; title from electronic title page (JSTOR Open Access, viewed January 31, 2018).
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Language In English.
Subject Vaccination -- History.
Vaccination -- Political aspects.
Vaccination -- Law and legislation.
Health planning -- Developing countries.
Medical policy.
Politics, Practical.
Vaccines -- history
Mass Vaccination
Developing Countries
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Policy
Politics
Social Responsibility
Vaccination -- Histoire.
Vaccination -- Aspect politique.
Politique sanitaire.
Politique.
politics.
Medicine.
Medicine: general issues.
History of medicine.
MEDICAL -- General.
MEDICAL -- History.
Vaccination.
Vaccins.
Politics, Practical
Medical policy
Vaccination -- Law and legislation
Health planning
Vaccination
Developing countries
Impfung
Gesundheitspolitik
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History
Added Author Holmberg, Christine, editor.
Blume, Stuart S., 1942- editor.
Greenough, Paul R. (Paul Robert), editor.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Politics of vaccination. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 9781526110886 (DLC) 2017394238 (OCoLC)952368668
ISBN 9781526124272 (electronic bk.)
1526124270 (electronic bk.)
9781526110916 (electronic bk.)
1526110911 (electronic bk.)
9781526110930 (ePUB eBook)
1526110938 (ePUB eBook)
9781526110886
1526110881
9781526110909
1526110903
Standard No. 10.7765/9781526110916 doi
GBVCP 101494533X
UKMGB 020286195

 
    
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