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 eBooks
• 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

Rezensionen

"This exciting ethnographic account of the measles epidemic in Pakistan, focuses on the ultimate causes of vaccination resistance. While biomedical and global public health officials point to 'backward' cultural beliefs and behaviors and the irrational embrace of conspiracy theories (e.g., vaccination is a plot to achieve Muslim sterilization), Inayat Ali reveals the fundamental role of socioeconomic inequality, locally, nationally, and globally, in fueling the measles epidemic in his country. Moreover, Ali mobilizes the social insights of Foucault on the social distribution of power, and the ideas of various medical anthropologists, to affirm measles vaccination avoidance in Pakistan as an expression of resistance." - Merrill Singer, University of Connecticut, USA

"A credible research resource, addressing a public health issue through anthropological lens, for public health professionals, practitioners, and policy makers particularly relevant to Pakistan in the COVID-19 pandemic affected health care systems and vaccination programs. Inayat Ali has examined the issues surrounding measles in the larger context of fragile health system and inequitable social structures of Pakistan. He illustrates that the disease outbreaks are indeed the outcome of competing narratives, inequalities, and social conflicts. This dimension is largely missing in the public health professionals' dialogues. His work is guided by theoretical and methodological frameworks that have relevance to other public health problems. The author argues the need for a comprehensive effective governance approach to deal with global Covid 19 pandemic as well as draw upon a deep understanding of vaccine hesitancy to improve the vaccination programs. A must read for public health professionals." - Saima Hamid, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Pakistan