Introduction.

1.The privatization of societal vaccinology in the Netherlands.

2.The rise and fall of state vaccine institutions in Spain (1871–1986).

3.Politics of vaccination in Sweden: the National Bacteriological Laboratory SBL (1909–1993) and current debates.

4.The failed promises of a brighter future: the Institute of Immunology in Zagreb from a public asset to a privatized burden.

5.Wilful neoliberal incapacitation of India’s public sector vaccine institutions.

6.Start with the world and continue in isolation: the Pasteur and Razi Institutes’ vaccine legacy in Iran.

7.Translating Pasteur's vision in Eastern Europe: the role of the Cantacuzino Institute in Romanian vaccination policies and vaccine production.

8.Vaccine production in Serbia: political and socio-cultural determinants in historical perspective.

Epilogue: states and vaccines in the age of Covid-19

Stuart Blume is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Baptiste Baylac-Paouly is fixed-term Lecturer in History of Medicine at the Medical School Lyon-Est, France.