| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 201 pages) : illustrations |
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Science in society series |
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Science in society series.
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| Contents |
Introduction : global technologies, personal worlds -- Analysing vaccine anxieties -- Body, body politic and vaccination in the UK -- Anxieties over science : arguing MMR in the UK -- Body, body politic and vaccination in West Africa -- Anxieties over science : engaging vaccine trials in the Gambia |
| Summary |
This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological perspective with detailed field research, the book examines anxieties emerging as highly globalized vaccine technologies and technocracies encounter the deeply intimate personal and social worlds of parenting and childcare, and how these are part of transforming science-society relations. It retheorizes anxieties about technologies, integrating bodily, social and wider political dimensions, and challenges common views of ignorance, risk, trust and rumour -- and related dichotomies between Northern risk society and Southern developing society -- that dominate current scientific and policy debates. In so doing, the book reflects critically on the stereotypes that at times pass for explanations of public engagement with both routine vaccination and vaccine research. It suggests routes to improved dialogue between health professionals and the people they serve, and new ways to address science-society relations in a globalized world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Immunization of children -- Complications -- Great Britain
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Immunization of children -- Complications -- Africa, West
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Vaccines -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
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Vaccines -- Political aspects -- Africa, West
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Vaccines -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Vaccines -- Social aspects -- Africa, West
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Vaccines -- Health aspects
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Vaccines.
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Vaccination.
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World health.
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Vaccines
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Anxiety
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Vaccination
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Global Health
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
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World health
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Vaccines
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Vaccination
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Immunization of children -- Complications
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Vaccines -- Health aspects
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Impfstoff
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Kind
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Gesundheitsvorsorge
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Vaccinatie.
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Kinderen.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Psychologische aspecten.
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Impfung -- Psychosoziale Aspekte.
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Impfung -- Kind.
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Kind -- Impfung.
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Africa, West.
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Africa, Western |
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United Kingdom |
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Great Britain
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West Africa
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Großbritannien
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Westafrika
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West-Afrika.
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fairhead, James, 1962- author.
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| ISBN |
9781849773690 |
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1849773696 |
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9781136549182 |
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1136549188 |
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9781136549229 |
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1136549226 |
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9781136549236 |
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1136549234 |
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9781281105202 |
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1281105201 |
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9781435602588 |
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1435602587 |
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9786611105204 |
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6611105204 |
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