Introduction: An Anthropology of Global Immunization
Rebecca Irons, Sahra Gibbon, Joanna Cook and Aaron Parkhurst

Chapter 1. Exemplifying Public Health? COVID-19, Vaccines and the Making of a Secure ‘Jewish State’
Ben Kasstan-Dabush

Chapter 2. Vaccination and Nationalism in the Danish Welfare State
Jens Seeberg and Malthe Lehrmann

Chapter 3. Another Day, Another Dose: ‘Good Citizenship’ and the COVID-19 Vaccine for Venezuelan Migrants Living with HIV in Bogotá
Rebecca Irons
*This work is supported by the Wellcome Trust. License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.01

Chapter 4. A Regulatory State of Exception
Andrew Lakoff

Chapter 5. The Race Against Time: Interrupting HIV Science and the Vaccine Against COVID-19
Susan Levine and Lenore Manderson

Chapter 6. Reframing Experimentality, Governing Ambiguity: Official Discredit of COVID-19 Vaccines in Brazil
Rosana Castro, Marko Monteiro and Alberto Urbinatti

Chapter 7. Confronting (Mis)Trust in Uncertain Times: Anthropological Insights into Vaccine Development and Deployment for Emergent Epidemics in Tanzania and Sierra Leone
Luisa Enria and Shelley Lees

Chapter 8. Of Needles and Informational Haystacks: Vaccine (Mis)Information Practices in Dublin, Ireland
Dan Nightingale
*This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council [Grant Number: ES/P000592/1]

Afterword
Samantha Vanderslott

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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 Hb Published (January 2026)

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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

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 Professor in Medical Anthropology at UCL. 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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BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC057000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Disease & Health Issues; MED078000 MEDICAL/Public Health

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Vaccine Politics and Realities in Ethnographic Perspective

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Vaccine Politics and Realities in Ethnographic Perspective

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

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