Inayat Ali

Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Beliefs, Structured Vulnerabilities, Mistrust, and Geo-Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000899252
• Artikelnr.: 72241577

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Merrill Singer
Prologue
Introduction
1 Many Anthropologies: Reflections on Theoretical Threads and the Medical
Anthropology of Pakistan
2 Researchlogue: Design, Methodology, and Circumstances of Data collection
3 The Setting: From Sindh Province to the Sindhi Villages
4 Competing Healthcare Systems: Revisiting Medical Pluralism in Pakistan
5 Health and Illness: Socio-cultural Understanding
6 Local Rituals of Containment: Emic Perceptions and Practices around
Measles
7 Social Dramas: Two Measles Outbreaks and Multiple Narratives in Pakistan
8 The Critical Geopolitical Events: Making Sense of Anti-Vaccination
Sentiment
9 National and Global Rituals of Containment: Controversies, Contestations,
and Mistrust Surrounding Vaccination in Pakistan
10 Measles Vaccine: From General to Particular
11 Creating an Anthropology of Vaccination: The International "Anti-Vaxx"
Movement and Multiple Narratives
Conclusions: Interrelations between Measle's Sacredness and Systematic
Disparities
Epilogue
Bibliography