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The politics of vaccination: A global history

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Edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume, Paul Greenough
2017
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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.

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Paul Greenough, Stuart Blume, Christine Holmberg
pp. 1-16
Part I. Vaccination and nationalidentity
Part II: Nationality, vaccine production and the end of
Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society
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