Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 201 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
2010 Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
9781136549236
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1136549234
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1849773696
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1281105201
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1435602587
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9781281105202
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9781435602588
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9781849773690
Series Statement:
Science in society
Content:
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.
Content:
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction
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English
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Leach, Melissa Vaccine anxieties London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Leach, Melissa, 1965 - Vaccine anxieties London : Earthscan, 2007 ISBN 1844074161
Additional Edition:
ISBN 184407370X
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Westafrika
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Gesundheitspolitik
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Impfung
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Kind
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Komplikation
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Öffentliche Meinung
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