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Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context.
List of contents
Introduction - Paul Greenough, Stuart Blume and Christine Holmberg
Part I: Vaccination and national identity
1. The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 - Paul Greenough
2. Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy - the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India - Niels Brimnes
3. Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe - Dora Vargha
4. 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns - Eun Kyung Choi and Young-Gyung Paik
Part II: Nationality, vaccine production, and the end of sovereign manufacture
5. Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth and twentieth century Mexico - Ana María Carrillo
6. The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands - Stuart Blume
7. Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -Jaime Benchimol
8. A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan - Julia Yongue
Part III: Vaccination, the individual, and society
9. The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media - Andrea Stöckl and Anna Smajdor
10. Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden - Britta Lundgren and Martin Holmberg
11. Polio vaccination, political authority, and the Nigerian state - Elisha Renne
Afterword
12. The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns - Bill Muraskin
Index
About the author
Christine Holmberg is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Public Health at Charité - Universitlätsmedizin Berlin
Stuart Blume is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam
Paul Greenough is Professor Emeritus of History and Community and Behavioural Health at the University of Iowa
Summary
Provides a comprehensive, comparative study of global vaccine politics and their social, economic and historical context. -- .
