Politics of Vaccination

Christine Holmberg is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Public Health at Charité - Universitlätsmedizin BerlinStuart Blume is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of AmsterdamPaul Greenough is Professor Emeritus of History and Community and Behavioural Health at the University of Iowa

• Introduction - Paul Greenough, Stuart Blume and Christine HolmbergPart I: Vaccination and national identity1. The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 - Paul Greenough2. Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy - the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India - Niels Brimnes3. Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe - Dora Vargha4. 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns - Eun Kyung Choi and Young-Gyung PaikPart II: Nationality, vaccine production, and the end of sovereign manufacture5. Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth and twentieth century Mexico - Ana María Carrillo6. The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands - Stuart Blume7. Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -Jaime Benchimol8. A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan - Julia YonguePart III: Vaccination, the individual, and society9. The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media - Andrea Stöckl and Anna Smajdor10. Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden - Britta Lundgren and Martin Holmberg11. Polio vaccination, political authority, and the Nigerian state - Elisha RenneAfterword12. The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns - Bill MuraskinIndex

‘The reader will be impressed by the high quality of the research and the urgent import of the findings.’ Michael Bennett, University of Tasmania, Health and History: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2017