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The Politics of Vaccination
A Global History
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Protecting public health is central to the success of a modern government. The essays in this collection focus on the relationship between vaccines, vaccination policies and nation states across two centuries. Contributors provide a complex historical analysis of vaccination that will be of interest to historians, health scholars and policy makers.


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Introduction - Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume and Paul R Greenough Part I: Nationals, Vaccination and the State 1 The Uneasy Politics of Epidemic Aid: The CDC's Cold War Mission to 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's Future': The Development of the Hepatitis B Vaccine and the Vaccination Campaigns Focused on Newborns in 1980s South Korea - Eun Kyung Choi and Young-Gyung Paik Part II: Vaccines, Immunisation Campaigns and the State 5 Vaccines Production and the State in Twentieth-Century Mexico - Ana Maria 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, Modernizing the Nation - Jaime Benchimol 8 Health Policies and their Impact on Japan's Vaccine Industry: Moving Towards a New Model of Development and Production - Julia Yongue Part III: Vaccination in the Twenty-First-Century State 9 The MMR Vaccine Debate in the United Kingdom: Science, Policy, Statesmanship and the Media -Andrea Stockl and Anna Smajdor 10 Pandemic Flus and Vaccination Policies in Sweden - Britta Lundgren 11 Polio Vaccination, Political Authority and the Nigerian State - Elisha Renne Afterword: The Power of Individuals and the Dependency of Nations in Global Eradication and Immunisation Campaigns - Bill Muraskin


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ISBN-13: 9781848935839
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Publication date: November, 2015
Pages: 256
Weight: 652g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: General Issues, Public Health

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