Vaccine Anxieties

Author: Melissa Leach
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 184407370X
Category: Medical

Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society (The Earthscan Science in Society Series)

This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. Download Vaccine Anxieties medical books for free.
This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological perspective with detailed field research, the book examines anxieties emerging as highly globalized vaccine technologies and technocracies encounter the deeply intimate personal and social worlds of parenting and childcare, and how these are part of transforming science-society relations. It retheorizes anxieties about technologies, integrating bodily, social and wider political dimensions, and challenges common views of ignorance, risk, trust and rumour - Get Vaccine Anxieties our bestseller medical books.

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This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria It retheorizes anxieties about technologies, integrating bodily, social and wider political dimensions, and challenges common views of ignorance, risk, trust and rumour -

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