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An Anthropology of Global Immunization

Vaccine Politics and Realities in Ethnographic Perspective

Edited by Rebecca Irons, Sahra Gibbon, Joanna Cook and Aaron Parkhurst

186 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-320-3 $120.00/£92.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (January 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-321-0 eBook Not Yet Published


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“This volume tracks the fraying and fractious intersections between governmental policy, material politics of biomedical innovation and public health, providing a compelling analysis that integrates a sharp attention to political economy with granular anthropological accounts of lived experience of vaccine campaigns.” • Ann H. Kelly, University of Oxford

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An Anthropology of Global Immunization explores some of the most pressing vaccine concerns of our time, from HPV to COVID-19, HIV and beyond. This edited collection develops a unique anthropological response to the question of global immunization, addressing issues from vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories to local biopolitics. The global perspectives in this volume are bound together by critical anthropological themes of nationalism, governance and local biosocial realities. The collection lays a critical foundation to understand vaccine development, implementation and public health policy.

Rebecca Irons is a Wellcome Trust senior research fellow in humanities and social sciences at University College London.

Sahra Gibbon is Professor of Medical Anthropology at UCL.

Joanna Cook is a Lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University College London. She is the author of Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and co-editor of Detachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking (Manchester University Press, 2015).

Aaron Parkhurst is Associate Professor of Biosocial and Medical Anthropology at UCL. He is editor of the Journal of Anthropology and Medicine.

Subject: Medical Anthropology


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