Vaccine anxieties : global science, child health and society /

Vaccine anxieties : global science, child health and society /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Leach, Melissa.
Imprint:	London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007.
Description:	xiv, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Science in society series
Subject:	Immunization of children -- Complications -- Great Britain. Immunization of children -- Complications -- Africa, West. Vaccines -- Political aspects -- Great Britain. Vaccines -- Political aspects -- Africa, West. Vaccines -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. Vaccines -- Social aspects -- Africa, West. Vaccines -- Health aspects. Vaccines -- Africa, Western. Vaccines -- Great Britain. Anxiety -- Africa, Western. Anxiety -- Great Britain. Vaccination -- Africa, Western. Vaccination -- Great Britain. World Health -- Africa, Western. World Health -- Great Britain. Immunization of children -- Complications. Vaccines -- Health aspects. Africa, West. Great Britain.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7642252

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Other authors / contributors:	Fairhead, James, 1962-
ISBN:	9781844074167 (hbk.) 1844074161 (hbk.) 9781844073702 (pbk.) 184407370X (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-191) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Global Technologies, Personal Worlds
2. Analysing Vaccine Anxieties
3. Body, Body Politic Vaccination in the UK
4. Anxieties Over Science: Arguing MMR is the UK
5. Body, Body Politics and Vaccination in West Africa
6. Anxieties Over Science: Engaging Vaccine Trials in The Gambia
7. Conclusions
References
Index