The politics of vaccination

Introduction - Paul Greenough, Stuart Blume and Christine Holmberg Part I: Vaccination and national identity 1. The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 - Paul Greenough 2. Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy - the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India - Niels Brimnes 3. Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe - Dora Vargha 4. '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 Paik Part II: Nationality, vaccine production, and the end of sovereign manufacture 5. Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth and twentieth century Mexico - Ana Maria Carrillo 6. The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands - Stuart Blume 7. Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -Jaime Benchimol 8. A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan - Julia Yongue Part III: Vaccination, the individual, and society 9. The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media - Andrea Stockl and Anna Smajdor 10. Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden - Britta Lundgren and Martin Holmberg 11. Polio vaccination, political authority, and the Nigerian state - Elisha Renne Afterword 12. The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns - Bill Muraskin Index