Title Vaccine anxieties : global science, child health, and society / Melissa Leach and James Fairhead

Published London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007

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Description xiv, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Introduction: global technologies, personal worlds -- Analysing vaccine anxieties -- Body, body politic, and vaccination in Britain -- Anxieties over science: arguing MMR in Britain -- Body, body politic, and vaccination in West Africa -- Anxieties over science: engaging vaccine trials in the Gambia Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Immunization of children -- Complications -- Great Britain. Immunization of children -- Complications -- Africa, West. Vaccines -- Political aspects -- Great Britain. Vaccines -- Political aspects -- Africa, West. Vaccines -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. Vaccines -- Social aspects -- Africa, West. Vaccines -- Health aspects. Vaccines. Anxiety. Vaccination. Global Health. SUBJECT Africa, Western. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000354 United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 Author Fairhead, James, 1962- LC no. 2007025359 ISBN 9781844074167 hardback 1844074161 hardback 9781844073702 paperback 184407370X paperback

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