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Summary:

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.

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.

Contributors:

Holmberg, Christine , editor

Blume, Stuart S., 1942- , editor

Greenough, Paul R. (Paul Robert) , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Politics of vaccination (Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 — ISBN 9781526110886; LCCN 2017394238; OCLC Number 952368668)

Related Series:

Social histories of medicine

Subjects:

Vaccination — History

Vaccination — Political aspects

Vaccination — Law and legislation

Health planning — Developing countries

Vaccination

Health planning

Developing countries

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Description based on: Online resource; title from electronic title page (JSTOR Open Access, viewed January 31, 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

RA638 .T447 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781526124272 (electronic bk.)
1526124270 (electronic bk.)
9781526110916 (electronic bk.)
1526110911 (electronic bk.)
9781526110886 [Invalid]
1526110881 [Invalid]
9781526110909 [Invalid]
1526110903 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017394238

OCLC Numbers:

1004764866