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Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan (Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology) - Hardcover

Ali, Inayat

 
9781032151939: Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan (Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1032151935 ISBN 13: 9781032151939
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Inayat Ali is in charge of the Department of Public Health and Allied Sciences and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032151935
ISBN 13 
9781032151939
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
300