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Record Nr.

UNINA9910168750003321

Titolo

The Politics of Vaccination : A Global History / / edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume and Paul Greenough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-2427-0

1-5261-1091-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s)

Collana

Social histories of medicine

Disciplina

610.9

Soggetti

Gesundheitspolitik

Impfung

Vaccination

Vaccines - history

Health planning - Developing countries

Vaccination - Law and legislation

Vaccination - History

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.