Medical Modernization and Medical Nationalism: Resistance to Mass Tuberculosis Vaccination in Postcolonial India, 1948–1955

McMillen, Christian W.; Brimnes, Niels

doi:10.1017/s0010417509990375

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“…In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, for instance, vaccination campaigns were a tool of colonial and military enterprises seeking to sanitize bodies that were viewed as a threat to the security of privileged classes, an occupying army, or economic interests. Local movements protested that these campaigns were no salve for the neglect or destruction of broader programs for public well-being [29][30][31][32][33]. As illustrated in the point above, medical and public health authorities have at times been complicit in this neglect of broader public programs, raising reason to think carefully about their proposed role as vaccine brokers with disenfranchised publics.…”

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Vaccine confidence in the time of COVID-19

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In the early months of the COVID-19 epidemic, some have wondered if the force of this global experience will solve the problem of vaccine refusal that has vexed and preoccupied the global public health community for the last several decades. Drawing on historical and epidemiological analyses, we critique contemporary approaches to reducing vaccine hesitancy and articulate our notion of vaccine confidence as an expanded way of conceptualizing the problem and how to respond to it. Intervening on the rush of vaccine optimism we see pervading present discourse around the COVID-19 epidemic, we call for a re-imagination of the culture of public health and the meaning of vaccine safety regulations. Public confidence in vaccination programs depends on the work they do for the community-social, political, and moral as well as biological. The concept of public health and its programs must be broader than the delivery of the vaccine technology itself. The narrative work and policy actions entailed in actualizing such changes will, we expect, be essential in achieving a true vaccine confidence, however the public reacts to the specific vaccine that may be developed for COVID-19.

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“…That goes on to show that cosmetic surgeons in Korea have a high level of adaptability and technical skill. (Korean Surgeon, Dr Phi) We analyse this discourse of pride as an example of medical nationalisma conceptualisation applied by previous scholars to, among other contexts, anti-vaccine activism as an expression of anti-colonialism in India (McMillen & Brimnes 2010), the long history of discriminatory treatment of foreign medical professionals in France (Evleth 1995;Fannin 2010), the postcolonial nationalism of certain forms of Indian 'traditional medicine' (Alter 2015) and the centring of health care as a national achievement and as a tool for international diplomacy in Cuba (Johnson 2006).…”

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Trading faces: The ‘Korean Look’ and medical nationalism in South Korean cosmetic surgery tourism

Holliday

Cheung

Cho³

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Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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This paper addresses the growing phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism through a focus on the development of this industry in South Korea. Unlike many discussions of this topic, the paper decentres dominant narratives based on west‐goes‐east or north‐goes‐south journeys. Instead, we look at regional flows by exploring the experiences of Chinese patients travelling to South Korea in search of facial cosmetic surgery – procedures often referred to as the ‘Korean Look’ and associated with exported Korean popular culture. We focus on the contested understandings of the motives for and outcomes of this surgery between Korean surgeons and Chinese patients, documenting one example of the cultural investments and (mis)understandings that can impact on the experiences of medical tourists as they travel across national borders in search of treatment. We situate the development of cosmetic surgery tourism in Korea in the context of a discourse we call ‘medical nationalism’, showing how surgeons in particular reproduce this discourse in terms of pride in their contribution to the economic and reputational success of South Korea on a world stage. However, we demonstrate finally that, as a privatised, feminised and trivialised form of medicine, cosmetic surgery will always fail to deliver in this respect.

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“…There are Dangerous Diseases Acts in state and local legislatures in India, which can be applied during threats of infectious diseases, but they have not generally yet been linked to immunization campaigns. Experts worry about legislative expressions of medical nationalism, 27 however. This concept problematizes the confluence of citizenship with participation in immunization campaigns and illuminates the ethical problem of consent to vaccination potentially being undermined by one's very status as a citizen.…”

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Coercion and polio eradication efforts in Moradabad

Rentmeester

Dasgupta

Feemster

et al. 2014

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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We introduce the problem of vaccine coercion as reported in Moradabad, India. We offer commentary and critical analysis on ethical complexities at the intersection of global public health and regional political strife and relate them to broader vaccine goals. We draw upon a historical example from malaria vaccine efforts, focusing specifically on ethical and health justice issues expressed through the use of coercion in vaccine administration. We suggest how coercion is indicative of failed leadership in public health and consider community-based collaborations as models for cultivating local investment and trust in vaccination campaigns and for success in global public health initiatives.

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Medical Modernization and Medical Nationalism: Resistance to Mass Tuberculosis Vaccination in Postcolonial India, 1948–1955

Cited by 15 publications

References 21 publications

Vaccine confidence in the time of COVID-19

Vaccine confidence in the time of COVID-19

Trading faces: The ‘Korean Look’ and medical nationalism in South Korean cosmetic surgery tourism

Coercion and polio eradication efforts in Moradabad

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