Vaccine anxieties : global science, child health and society / Melissa Leach and James Fairhead.

  • Leach, Melissa.
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2007
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London : Earthscan, 2007.

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xiv, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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

Contents

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.

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    QW805 2007L43v
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  • 9781844074167
  • 1844074161
  • 9781844073702
  • 184407370X