Overview

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. -- .

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Author:   Christine Holmberg ,  Stuart Blume ,  Paul Greenhalgh ,  Paul Greenhalgh
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9781526110886

ISBN 10:   1526110881
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   08 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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'The reader will be impressed by the high quality of the research and the urgent import of the findings. Much of the history has been assembled from relatively inaccessible sources, some of which are in danger of being lost, in all the relevant languages. At the same time, there is the strong sense that there remains much to consider with respect to the future of vaccination.' Michael Bennett, University of Tasmania, Health and History: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2017 -- .

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Christine Holmberg is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Public Health at Charit - Universitltsmedizin Berlin Stuart Blume is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam Paul Greenough is Professor Emeritus of History and Community and Behavioural Health at the University of Iowa

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