Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan

Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan

by Inayat Ali
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 29/08/2024

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This book explores issues surrounding measles and vaccination in Pakistan. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it focuses on two major outbreaks in Sindh Province and on Pakistan’s vaccination campaigns. The chapters examine the responses to outbreaks and vaccination from various stakeholders including local people, the Pakistani government and the WHO. Inayat Ali reflects on the competing agendas, differing conceptualizations of measles and vaccination, and the factors that lie behind these contestations. Situating outbreaks within the institutionalized form of disparities, he analyzes the rituals used to deal with measles and local resistance to vaccines in Pakistan. The distinct imaginaries and practices related to measles and vaccination are considered in national and global context, and the book makes a valuable contribution to the development of an anthropology of vaccination and medical anthropology of Pakistan.

ISBN:
9781000899252
9781000899252
Category:
Anthropology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
29-08-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis

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