Description:
This edited collection develops a unique anthropological response to the question of global immunization, addressing issues from vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories, to local biopolitics. Presented through original research, An Anthropology of Global Immunization explore some of the most pressing vaccine concerns of our time, from HPV to COVID-19, HIV and beyond.
Brief description:
Rebecca Irons is a Wellcome Trust senior research fellow in humanities and social sciences at University College London.
Review Quotes:
"This volume tracks the fraying and fractious intersections between governmental policy, material politics of biomedical innovation and public health, providing a compelling analysis that integrates a sharp attention to political economy with granular anthropological accounts of lived experience of vaccine campaigns." - Ann H. Kelly, University of Oxford