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Protecting public health is central to the success of a modern government. The essays in this collection focus on the relationship between vaccines, vaccination policies and nation states across two centuries. Contributors provide a complex historical analysis of vaccination that will be of interest to historians, health scholars and policy makers.

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Christine Holmberg is based at the Berlin School of Public Health. She has been awarded the Breast Cancer Stamp Money Award and the Cancer Prevention Research Merit Award. Her recent publications include 'Changing Academic Medicine: Strategies Used by Academic Leaders of Integrative Medicine - A Qualitative Study', co-authored (Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2012) and 'Primary Prevention in General Practice - Views of German General Practitioners: A Mixed-Methods Study', co-authored (BMC Family Practice, 2014). Stuart Blume is Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam and specializes in the development and introduction of new health care technologies. He is also an expert advisor on bioethics to the World Federation of the Deaf. Recent publications include Protecting the World's Children: Immunisation Policies and Practices, co-authored (2013) and 'Medical Innovations: Their Diffusion, Adoption, and Critical Interrogation', Sociology Compass (2013). Paul R Greenough is Professor of the History of Modern India, and Environmental and Global Health History at the University of Iowa. The history of global public health is one of his main research interests and he is an acknowledged expert on smallpox. Publications include 'Cold-War Epidemic Crisis, Outbreak Surveillance and the Pre-history of Smallpox Eradication: The US Centers for Disease Control in East Pakistan, 1958' (2014).

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