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 * Conclusions * Index
Melissa Leach is a social anthropologist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK. She is Director of the ESRC Centre for Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS). James Fairhead is Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK.
'One of the most insightful and compelling analyses of a modern
public health paradox.'
Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet 'A remarkable anthropological
comparison across continents, this book is about common anxieties
and different circumstances as they colour people's lives. The
empirical studies at its core show us parents struggling with
global science, with stereotypes about ignorance, with the delivery
of medical services, all framed by their personal knowledge and
experiences. Vaccination offers a brilliant case study for a
brilliant exposition.'
Marilyn Strathern, DBE, Professor of Social Anthropology,
University of Cambridge 'Is vaccination safe? Is resistance to MMR
vaccine ignorant and wrong-headed? Leach and Fairhead offer
provocative answers in this richly detailed account of how parents
in the UK and West Africa cope with multiple anxieties in
immunizing their children. This book should be compulsory reading
for anyone concerned with global health and public policy.'
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology
Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
'In this book, Fairhead and Leach have continued productively to
develop their earlier ground-breaking work thoroughly integrating
the distinct fields of development studies anthropology, and
science and technology studies. In this present work, not only have
they opened up further dimensions of how diverse global publics
encounter and respond to developments promoted in the name of
science, they have also drawn attention to the political economy of
the discursive construction of such publics, in biomedical research
and vaccine innovation and policy.'
Professor Brian Wynne, Associate Director, ESRC Centre for Economic
and Social Aspects of Genomics, Lancaster University 'This should
be mandatory reading for everyone who believes that new vaccines
and better vaccine coverage are fundamental to improving the health
of children throughout the world - for without a better
understanding of how vaccines are perceived by the parents whose
children are being targeted these efforts will continue to
encounter needless frustrations.'
Sarah Rowland-Jones, Scientific Director, Medical Research Council
Laboratories, The Gambia 'Vaccine Anxieties is an exemplar of
modern anthropological comparison.'
Alison Shaw, Oxford University, UK 'Recommended'
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