Article ID: CBB001422167

“Fight TB with BCG”: Mass Vaccination Campaigns in the British Caribbean, 1951--6 (2014)

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Based on a wide range of primary materials, including WHO reports and Colonial Office correspondence, this article examines the UNICEF/WHO-funded mass BCG campaigns that were carried out in seven Caribbean colonies between 1951 and 1956. It explores the reasons behind them, their nature and aftermath and also compares them to those in other non-European countries and discusses them within a context of decolonisation. In doing so, it not only adds to the scholarship on TB in non-European contexts, which had tended to focus on Africa and Asia, but also to the relatively new field of Caribbean medical history and the rapidly expanding body of work on international health, which has paid scant attention to the Anglophone Caribbean and the pre-independence period.

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Authors & Contributors
Hochman, Gilberto
Palmer, Steven Paul
Martín Espinosa, Noelia María
Ayarzagüena Sanz, Mariano
Hsu, Li Yang
Kyuri Kim
Concepts
Public health
Disease and diseases
Infectious diseases
Tuberculosis
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Vaccines; vaccination
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Korea
Brazil
Argentina
India
Caribbean
Great Britain
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
United States. Office of Indian Affairs
Henry Phipps Institute, Philadelphia
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