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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Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan
Cultural Beliefs, Structured Vulnerabilities, Mistrust, and Geo-Politics
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Contesting Measles and Vaccination in Pakistan
Cultural Beliefs, Structured Vulnerabilities, Mistrust, and Geo-Politics
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 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 Settings: The Ethnographic Features of the Two Villages
- 4 Competing Healthcare Systems: Revisiting Medical Pluralism in Pakistan
- 5 Health and Illness: Sociocultural Understandings
- 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 the Anthropology of Vaccination
- Conclusions: Interrelations between Measles’ Sacredness and Systematic Disparities
- Bibliography
- Index
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