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Author:

Leach, Melissa.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Earthscan,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xiv, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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--Africa, Western.
Vaccines--Great Britain.
Anxiety--Africa, Western.
Anxiety--Great Britain.
Vaccination--Africa, Western.
Vaccination--Great Britain.
World Health--Africa, Western.
World Health--Great Britain.

Other Authors:

Fairhead, James, 1962-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-191) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : global technologies, personal worlds -- Analysing vaccine anxieties -- Body, body politic and vaccination in the UK -- Anxieties over science : arguing MMR in the UK -- Body, body politic and vaccination in West Africa -- Anxieties over science : engaging vaccine trials in the Gambia.

Series:

Science in society series

ISBN:

184407370X (pbk.)
9781844073702 (pbk.)
1844074161 (hbk.)
9781844074167 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2007025359

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)