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James Fairhead

Vaccine Anxieties

Global Science, Child Health and Society

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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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Leach, Melissa
  • ISBN: 978-1-136-54923-6
  • EAN: 9781136549236
  • Produktnummer: 13867807
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 216 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 2'125 KB

Über den Autor


Melissa Leach is a social anthropologist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK. She is Director of the ESRC Centre for Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS). James Fairhead is Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK.

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