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oapen-20.500.12657-316122021-11-15T08:23:10Z The Politics of Vaccination Holmberg, Christine Blume, Stuart Greenough, Paul History Vaccination History Medicine Social and Cultural History Immunisation Public Health Polio Thorium bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine 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. 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-12 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:42:06Z 2020-04-01T13:42:06Z 2017-03-16 book 626407 OCN: 1028763240 9781526110916 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31612 eng Social Histories of Medicine application/pdf n/a 626407.pdf Manchester University Press 10.26530/oapen_626407 100049 10.26530/oapen_626407 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781526110916 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Manchester 100049 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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.
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