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Toward a political sociology of science
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ISBN: 0029043506 9780029043509 Year: 1974 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Free press,


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Perspectives in the sociology of science
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ISBN: 0471994804 Year: 1977 Publisher: Chichester Wiley


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The artificial ear : cochlear implants and the culture of deafness
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ISBN: 0813549116 9780813549118 9780813546599 0813546591 9780813546605 0813546605 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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When it was first developed, the cochlear implant was hailed as a "miracle cure" for deafness. That relatively few deaf adults seemed to want it was puzzling. The technology was then modified for use with deaf children, 90 percent of whom have hearing parents. Then, controversy struck as the Deaf community overwhelmingly protested the use of the device and procedure. For them, the cochlear implant was not viewed in the context of medical progress and advances in the physiology of hearing, but instead represented the historic oppression of deaf people and of sign languages. Part ethnography and part historical study, The Artificial Ear is based on interviews with researchers who were pivotal in the early development and implementation of the new technology. Through an analysis of the scientific and clinical literature, Stuart Blume reconstructs the history of artificial hearing from its conceptual origins in the 1930's, to the first attempt at cochlear implantation in Paris in the 1950's, and to the widespread clinical application of the "bionic ear" since the 1980's.


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Immunization : how vaccines became controversial
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ISBN: 1780238371 9781780238371 Year: 2017 Publisher: London: Reaktion Books Ltd,

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Vaccination.


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The artificial ear: cochlear implants and the culture of deafness
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ISBN: 9780813545837 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Brunswick (N.J.) Rutgers University Press

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The development of Dutch science policy in international perspective, 1965-1985
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ISBN: 9034607763 Year: 1985 Publisher: 's-Gravenhage RAWB

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Perspectives in the sociology of science
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The politics of vaccination : a global history
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ISBN: 9781526110916 1526110911 9781526124272 1526124270 9781526110886 1526110881 9781526110909 1526110903 9781526110930 1526110938 Year: 2017 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester university press,

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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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Protecting the world's children
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ISBN: 019164451X 0191644501 9780191644504 9780191749285 0191749281 9780191644511 019966644X 9780199666447 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Oxford University Press

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Vaccination programmes now represent a major part of the effort devoted to improving the health of children in developing countries. These donor-funded programmes tend to be global in scope and focus on worldwide goals and targets such as 'polio eradication', and the Millennium Development Goals. Health policy makers at the national level are expected to implement these programmes in a standard manner and report progress according to a few standard indicators. Pressures andincentives to achieve the targets set are then transmitted down to the community level health worker who actually meets th


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Immunization and states : the politics of making vaccines
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ISBN: 9780367672270 9780367672263 Year: 2022 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"Globally, there has been a move away from national public sector vaccine development over the past thirty years. Immunization and States: The Politics of Making Vaccines explores vaccine geopolitics, analysing why and how this move happened, before looking at the ramifications in the context of COVID-19. This is an important book for students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in vaccine development from a range of fields, including public health, medicine, science and technology studies, history of medicine, politics, international relations and the sociology of health and illness"--

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