The Politics Of Vaccination: A Global History (social Histories Of Medicine Mup Series)
by Christine Holmberg /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
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.
