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UNINA9910168750003321 |
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Titolo |
The Politics of Vaccination : A Global History / / edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume and Paul Greenough |
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Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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ISBN |
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1-5261-2427-0 |
1-5261-1091-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s) |
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Collana |
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Social histories of medicine |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Gesundheitspolitik |
Impfung |
Vaccination |
Vaccines - history |
Health planning - Developing countries |
Vaccination - Law and legislation |
Vaccination - History |
History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2017. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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