Contesting Measles and Vaccination in 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

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781032151939
eBook ISBN
9781000899252
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Dedication
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Preface
  10. Prologue
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 Many Anthropologies: Reflections on Theoretical Threads and the Medical Anthropology of Pakistan
  13. 2 Researchlogue: Design, Methodology, and Circumstances of Data Collection
  14. 3 The Settings: The Ethnographic Features of the Two Villages
  15. 4 Competing Healthcare Systems: Revisiting Medical Pluralism in Pakistan
  16. 5 Health and Illness: Sociocultural Understandings
  17. 6 Local Rituals of Containment: Emic Perceptions and Practices around Measles
  18. 7 Social Dramas: Two Measles Outbreaks and Multiple Narratives in Pakistan
  19. 8 The Critical Geopolitical Events: Making Sense of Anti-Vaccination Sentiment
  20. 9 National and Global Rituals of Containment: Controversies, Contestations, and Mistrust Surrounding Vaccination in Pakistan
  21. 10 Measles Vaccine: From General to Particular
  22. 11 Creating the Anthropology of Vaccination
  23. Conclusions: Interrelations between Measles’ Sacredness and Systematic Disparities
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index