TY  - BOOK
ED  - Holmberg, Christine
ED  - Blume, Stuart
ED  - Greenough, Paul
AB  - 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. A novel lens through which to view changes in concepts of 'society' and 'nation' over time.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_626407
ID  - OAPEN ID: 626407
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1028763240
KW  - History
KW  - Vaccination
KW  - History
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Social and Cultural History
KW  - Immunisation
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Polio
KW  - Thorium
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/db0c0cfc-2328-469d-b35d-c3f4a80ff63c/626407.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31612
PB  - Manchester University Press
PP  - Manchester
PY  - 2017-03-16
SN  - 9781526110916
TI  - The Politics of Vaccination : A Global History
ER  - 
