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Vaccine anxieties : global science, child health and society / Melissa Leach and James Fairhead.

This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria. Combining a fresh anthropological perspectiv...

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Main Authors: Leach, Melissa (Author), Fairhead, James, 1962- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007.
Series:Science in society series.
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Immunization of children > Complications > Great Britain.
Immunization of children > Complications > Africa, West.
Vaccines > Political aspects > Great Britain.
Vaccines > Political aspects > Africa, West.
Vaccines > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Vaccines > Social aspects > Africa, West.
Vaccines > Health aspects.
Immunization of children > Complications.
Great Britain.
West Africa.

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