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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmberg, Christine., Editor.

Contributor:

Greenough, Paul R. (Paul Robert), editor.

Blume, Stuart S., 1942- editor.

Holmberg, Christine, editor.

Manchester University Press, publisher.

Series:

Social histories of medicine.

Manchester History of Medicine

Social histories of medicine

Standardized Title:

Politics of vaccination (Manchester University Press)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vaccination--History.

Vaccination.

Vaccination--Political aspects.

Vaccination--Law and legislation.

Health planning--Developing countries.

Health planning.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

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.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526124272

1526124270

9781526110916

1526110911

OCLC:

1103809534

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access