An Anthropology of Global Immunization: Vaccine Politics and Realities in Ethnographic Perspective (PDF)

by Rebecca Irons (ed.), Sahra Gibbon (ed.), Joanna Cook (ed.), Aaron Parkhurst (ed.)

An Anthropology of Global Immunization explores some of the most pressing vaccine concerns of our time, from HPV to COVID-19, HIV and beyond. 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. The global perspectives in this volume are bound together by critical anthropological themes of nationalism, governance and local biosocial realities. The collection lays a critical foundation to understand vaccine development, implementation and public health policy.