| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages): illustrations. |
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Social histories of medicine |
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Social histories of medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Contents |
Part I: Vaccination and national identity -- 1 The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 -- 2 Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy: the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India -- 3 Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe -- 4 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns -- 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 -- 6 The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands -- 7 Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -- 8 A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan -- Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society -- 9 The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media -- 10 Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden -- 11 Polio vaccination, political authority and the Nigerian state -- 12 The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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Vaccination -- History.
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Vaccination -- Political aspects.
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Vaccination -- Law and legislation.
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Health planning -- Developing countries.
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Vaccination. (OCoLC)fst01163544
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Impfung.
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Gesundheitspolitik.
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Medicine.
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Medicine: general issues.
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History of medicine.
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MEDICAL / General.
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MEDICAL / History.
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Mass Vaccination. (DNLM)D032541
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Health Policy. (DNLM)D006291
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Politics. (DNLM)D011057
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice. (DNLM)D007722
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Social Responsibility. (DNLM)D012941
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Holmberg, Christine, editor.
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Blume, Stuart S., 1942- editor.
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Greenough, Paul R. (Paul Robert), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781526110886 1526110881 9781526110909 1526110903 (DLC) 2017394238 (OCoLC)952368668 |
| ISBN |
9781526124272 (electronic bk.) |
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1526124270 (electronic bk.) |
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9781526110916 (electronic bk.) |
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1526110911 (electronic bk.) |
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9781526110886 |
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1526110881 |
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9781526110909 |
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1526110903 |
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