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The Politics of Vaccination
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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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Keywords
- History
- history of medicine
- Immunisation
- KUnlatched
- Medical / History
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
- polio
- Public Health
- Social and Cultural History
- thorium
- vaccination
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DOI: 10.26530/oapen_626407Editions
