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Contesting measles and vaccination in Pakistan : cultural beliefs, structured vulnerabilities, mistrust, and geo-politics / Inayat Ali.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ali, Inayat (Medical anthropologist), author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in health and medical anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Measles--Vaccination--Pakistan--Sindh.
- Measles.
- Vaccine hesitancy--Pakistan--Sindh.
- Vaccine hesitancy.
- Anti-vaccination movement--Pakistan--Sindh.
- Anti-vaccination movement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 281 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Contents:
- Many anthropologies: reflections on theoretical threads and the medical anthropology of Pakistan
- Researchlogue: design, methodology, and circumstances of data collection
- The setting: from Sindh province to the Sindhi villages
- Competing healthcare systems: revisiting medical pluralism in Pakistan
- Health and illness: socio-cultural understanding
- Local rituals of containment: emic perceptions and practices around measles
- Social dramas: two measles outbreaks and multiple narratives in Pakistan
- The critical geopolitical events: making sense of anti-vaccination sentiment
- National and global rituals of containment: controversies, contestations, and mistrust surrounding vaccination in Pakistan
- Measles vaccine: from general to particular
- Creating an anthropology of vaccination: the international "anti-vaxx" movement and multiple narratives
- Conclusions: interrelations between measles's sacredness and systematic disparities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ali, Inayat Contesting measles and vaccination in Pakistan
- ISBN:
- 9781000899252
- 100089925X
- 9781003253716
- 1003253717
- 9781000899184
- 1000899187
- Publisher Number:
- 90104362672
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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