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The Politics of Vaccination: A Global History
Stuart S. Blume (Ed.)
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Description for The Politics of Vaccination: A Global History
Hardback. Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. Editor(s): Blume, Stuart S.; Holmberg, Christine; Greenough, Paul. Series Editor(s): Cantor, David. Series: Social Histories of Medicine. Num Pages: 360 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 9 tables. BIC Classification: MBX; MJCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Social Histories of Medicine
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526110886
SKU
V9781526110886
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About Stuart S. Blume (Ed.)
Christine Holmberg is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Public Health at Charite - Universitlatsmedizin Berlin Stuart Blume is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam Paul Greenough is Professor Emeritus of History and Community and Behavioural Health at the University of Iowa -- .
Reviews for The Politics of Vaccination: A Global History
'The reader will be impressed by the high quality of the research and the urgent import of the findings.' Michael Bennett, University of Tasmania, Health and History: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2017
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