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| Other authors / contributors: | Holmberg, Christine, editor.
Blume, Stuart S., 1942- editor.
Greenough, Paul R. (Paul Robert), editor.
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| ISBN: | 9781526124272
1526124270
9781526110916
1526110911
9781526110930
1526110938
9781526110886
1526110881
9781526110909
1526110903
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Online resource; title from electronic title page (JSTOR Open Access, viewed January 31, 2018).
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| Summary: | 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. Above all the essays suggest immunisation offers a novel lens through which to view changes in concepts of 'society' and 'nation' over time.
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| Other form: | Print version: Politics of vaccination. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 9781526110886
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| Standard no.: | 10.7765/9781526110916
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