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The Politics of Vaccination : A Global History / Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume, Paul Greenough.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text 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. A novel lens through which to view changes in concepts of 'society' and 'nation' over time.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2016 Front List Collection
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100049
- ISBN:
- 9781526110916
- OCLC:
- 1028763240
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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