The politics of vaccination : A global history /
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...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Vaccination and national identity
- The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958
- Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy: the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India
- Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe
- '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
- Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico
- The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands
- Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation
- A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan
- Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society
- The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media
- Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden
- Polio vaccination, political authority and the Nigerian state
- The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns.