Revolution in international public health?
Subtitle: the origins of the Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program and the birth of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
By: William Muraskin.
Series: Rochester studies in medical history
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program; Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization; Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program; Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization; Immunization of children -- Developing countries; Immunization Programs -- history; Child Welfare; Developing Countries; International Cooperation; Vaccines -- supply & distribution -- Child
Description: "In times of globalization, the study of "the local" has gained relevance. Once a seemingly unproblematic concept of the unit within which everyday life is set, the local can no longer be taken for granted. It has to be analyzed as a result of historical change. African studies have long focused on local communities and their respective peculiarities and traditions, sometimes reifying their very character. In recent years, African history and anthropology deconstructed many old core concepts: ethnicity, community, and the state."

"Constructions of Belonging applies these new approaches to the study of local communities in the Igbo-speaking areas of Southeastern Nigeria from the late nineteenth century to the present. Combining regional history with local case studies, the book analyzes interactions between localities and the modern state."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origin of the Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program; title: A look at the world that the Children's Vaccine Program had to deal with; title: The birth of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization; title: The Children's Vaccine Program on its own terms; title: Some observations on the nature of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.