March 2017
The politics of vaccination: A global history, Edited by Stuart Blume, Christine Holmberg and Paul Greenough. Manchester University Press, March 2017.
This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times, countries and under different types of political regime.
Core themes in the chapters include immunisation as an element of state formation; the action of citizens to incorporate their claims into public health practice; the influence of aid donors; and the vaccine as a profitable commodity.
One of the articles, “Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation,” was written by Jaime Benchimol, scientific editor of HCS-Manguinhos from 1997 to 2015 and since then a member of our scientific editorial council.
Jaime is also a full professor at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz and author of important studies on the history of tropical medicine.
Related articles in HCS-Manguinhos:
Una batalla ganada: la eliminación de la poliomielitis en Cuba, Enrique Beldarraín Chaple . Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2015, vol.22, no.3.
Breakthroughs towards a malaria vaccine, Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, June 2011, vol.18, no.2.
Smallpox eradication, laboratory visits, and a touch of tourism: travel notes of a Canadian scientist in Brazil, Steven Palmer, Gilberto Hochman and Danieli Arbex. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2010, vol.17, no.3.
Control, contención y educación higiénica en las campañas de vacunación contra la viruela en México durante la década de 1940, Claudia Agostoni. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2015, vol.22, no.2.
Disease, religion and medicine: smallpox in nineteenth-century Benin, Elisée Soumonni. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2012, vol.19, suppl.1.
