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Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach (Hardcover, 2007)
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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 i? risk societyi? and Southern i? developing societyi? - that dominate current scientific and policy debates. In so doing, the book reflects critically on the stereotypes that at times pass for i? explanationsi? 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis LTD
ISBN-139781844074167
eBay Product ID (ePID)89561005
Product Key Features
Number of Pages216 Pages
Publication NameVaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGovernment, Physics
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaInternational Law
AuthorJames Fairhead, Melissa Leach
SeriesThe Earthscan Science in Society Series
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Weight454 g
Item Width156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJames Fairhead, Melissa Leach
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