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  • Immunization and States

    The Politics of Making Vaccines

    Edited by Stuart Blume, Baptiste Baylac-Paouly ...
    Globally, there has been a move away from national public sector vaccine development over the past 30 years. Immunization and States: The Politics of Making Vaccines explores vaccine geopolitics, analyzing why, and how this move happened, before looking at the ramifications in the context of Covid-19.This unique book uses eight country studies – looking at Croatia, India, Iran, the Netherlands, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Poor Health

    Social Inequality before and after the Black Report

    Edited by Virginia Berridge, Stuart Blume ...
    Series series British Politics and Society
    The 1980 Black Report by Sir Douglas Black has kept health inequalities at the forefront of the public health agenda. This volume explores the history and development of studies and concern over health inequalities especially in relation to the 1980 report. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Protecting the World's Children

    Immunisation policies and Practices

    Edited by Sidsel Roalkvam, Desmond McNeill, Stuart Blume ...
    Vaccination programmes now represent a major part of the effort devoted to improving the health of children in developing countries. These donor-funded programmes tend to be global in scope and focus on worldwide goals and targets such as 'polio eradication', and the Millennium Development Goals. Health policy makers at the national level are expected to implement these programmes in a standard ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • The politics of vaccination

    A global history

    Edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume, Paul Greenough ...
    Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times, in ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Immunization

    How Vaccines Became Controversial

    by Stuart Blume ...
    Vaccines have helped mankind to tackle the dire threat of infectious disease for more than a hundred years. They have become key tools of public health and scientists are charged with developing them as quickly as possible to combat the emergence of new diseases such as Zika, SARS and Ebola. But why are growing numbers of parents all over the world now questioning the wisdom of having their ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Social Direction of the Public Sciences

    Causes and Consequences of Co-operation between Scientists and Non-scientific Groups

    Edited by Stuart Blume, Joske Bunders, Loet Leydesdorff, Richard P. Whitley ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume of the Sociology of the Sciences Yearbooks stems from our experience that collaborations between non-scientists and scientists, often initiated by scientists seeking greater social relevance for science, can be of major importance for cognitive development. It seemed to us that it would be useful to explore the conditions under which such collaborations affect scientific change and the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • HIV & AIDS

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Whiteside ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the outlook today is a little brighter. Although HIV/ AIDS continues to be a pressing public health issue the epidemic has ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    The Global Politics of Population Control

    by Betsy Hartmann ...
    "Those involved in women's health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought" ( Kirkus Reviews).This is an updated edition of the "influential study" ( Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs.Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Health of Nations

    The Campaign to End Polio and Eradicate Epidemic Diseases

    by Karen Bartlett ...
    ‘Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.’ – Jonas Salk, inventor of one of the first successful polio vaccinesNo one will die of smallpox again…One of the worst killers ever is now consigned to history – perhaps the greatest humanitarian achievement of our age. Now polio, malaria and measles are on the hit list.Karen Bartlett tells the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Polio Eradication and Its Discontents: A Historian’s Journey Through an International Public Health (Un)Civil War

    by William Muraskin ...
    There are many infectious diseases which kill millions of children every year the world over, but polio is not one of them. So why did the World Health Assembly in 1988 choose the eradication of polio as a global goal? This is the key question that William Muraskin asks and it inexorably leads to the unravelling of the official ‘heroic story’ of the fight against polio. The author finds that the ... Read more

    $23.50 USD

  • The Deadly Rise of Anti-science

    A Scientist's Warning

    by Peter J. Hotez ...
    Dr. Peter Hotez discusses how the antivaccine movement became a dangerous political campaign promoted by elected officials and amplified by news media, causing thousands of American deaths.Shortlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Awards by the Non-Obvious CompanyDuring the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, one renowned scientist, in his famous bowtie, appeared daily on major news networks such as MSNBC ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Biosecurity Interventions

    Global Health and Security in Question

    Edited by Andrew Lakoff, Stephen Collier ...
    Series series A Columbia / SSRC Book
    In recent years, new disease threats-such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis-have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have come not only from public health and medicine but also from such fields as emergency management, national security, and ... Read more

    $71.99 USD