The Politics of Vaccination
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Apr 16, 2017
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781526110886; 9781526110916
Subjects: History of medicine
Description: 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.
Notes: Knowledge Unlatched 100049 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

English.