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Vaccine anxieties

Leach, Melissa.

Vaccine anxieties global science, child health and society / [electronic resource] : Melissa Leach and James Fairhead. - London ; Sterling, Va. : Earthscan, 2007. - xiv, 201 p. : ill. - Science in society series . - Science in society series. .

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

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 -- Conclusions.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9781849773690 (e-book : PDF)


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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.


Electronic books.