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Contesting Measles and Vaccination Pakistan: Cultural Beliefs, Structured Vulnerabilities, Mistrust, Geo-Politics
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Contesting Measles and Vaccination Pakistan: Cultural Beliefs, Structured Vulnerabilities, Mistrust, Geo-Politics
Current price: $180.00
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Contesting Measles and Vaccination Pakistan: Cultural Beliefs, Structured Vulnerabilities, Mistrust, Geo-Politics
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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.