ID - 58466201 TI - The politics of vaccination : a global history AU - Holmberg, Christine AU - Greenough, Paul R. AU - Blume, Stuart S. AU - Manchester University Press PY - 2017 SN - 9781526110916 1526110911 9781526124272 1526124270 9781526110886 1526110881 9781526110909 1526110903 9781526110930 1526110938 PB - Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Gesundheitspolitik KW - Impfung KW - Vaccination. KW - Vaccines KW - Health planning KW - Vaccination KW - history. KW - Law and legislation. KW - History. KW - Vaccins KW - Medical laws and legislation KW - Biologicals KW - Communicable diseases KW - Inoculation KW - Preventive inoculation KW - Immunization KW - Anti-vaccination movement KW - Prevention KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Histoire. KW - Medicine KW - Social and Cultural History KW - Immunisation KW - Public Health KW - Polio KW - Thorium KW - History of medicine. KW - MEDICAL / History. KW - Medicine & Nursing KW - Political aspects. KW - Medicine: general issues UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:58466201 AB - 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. ER -