1st Edition

Immunization and States The Politics of Making Vaccines

Edited By Stuart Blume, Baptiste Baylac-Paouly Copyright 2022
238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

Stuart Blume and Baptiste Baylac-Paouly

Chapter 1: The Privatization of Societal Vaccinology in the Netherlands

Jan Hendriks

Chapter 2: The Rise and Fall of State Vaccine Institutions in Spain (1871-1986)

María-José Báguena and María-Isabel Porras

Chapter 3: Politics of Vaccination in Sweden: The National Bacteriological Laboratory SBL (1909–1993) and Current Debates

Motzi Eklöf

Chapter 4: The Failed Promises of a Brighter Future: The Institute of Immunology in Zagreb from a Public Asset to a Privatized Burden

Vedran Duančić, Snježana Ivčić and Ana Vračar

Chapter 5: Wilful Neoliberal Incapacitation of India’s Public Sector Vaccine Institutions

Madhavi Yennapu

Chapter 6: Start with the World and Continue in Isolation: The Pasteur and Razi Institutes’ Vaccine Legacy in Iran

Payam Roshanfekr and Parisa Roshanfekr

Chapter 7: Translating Pasteur's Vision in Eastern Europe: The Role of the Cantacuzino Institute in Romanian Vaccination Policies and Vaccine Production

Valentin-Veron Toma

Chapter 8: Vaccine Production in Serbia: Political and Socio-Cultural Determinants in Historical Perspective

Vesna Trifunović

Epilogue: States and Vaccines in the age of Covid-19

Stuart Blume and Maurizia Mezza

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Stuart Blume is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Baptiste Baylac-Paouly is fixed-term Lecturer in History of Medicine at the Medical School Lyon-Est, France.