Vaccine anxieties [electronic resource] : global science, child health and society / Melissa Leach and James Fairhead.
Material type: TextSeries: Science in society seriesPublication details: London ; Sterling, Va. : Earthscan, 2007.Description: xiv, 201 p. : illISBN:- 9781849773690 (e-book : PDF)
- 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
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.
Also available in print edition.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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