Article ID: CBB137306807

Immunity, Modernity, and the Biopolitics of Vaccination Resistance (2017)

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Conflicts over the value, meaning, and efficacy of vaccination as a preventive practice suggest that vaccination resistance stages disagreement within modern biological citizenship. This paper explores how immunity circulates in both vaccination controversy and biopolitical philosophies. Two positions—one characterized by somatic individualism, flexible bodies, reflexive approaches to knowledge, and the idea of the immune system as "the essential relation the body has with its vulnerability," and another characterized by the immunitary paradigm, biosecurity, trust in expert systems, and vaccination—emerge. Understanding that oppositional relation can reframe public understanding of vaccine skepticism and public health responses to it.

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Authors & Contributors
Kirill Chunikhin
Joshua Frens-String
Wahlert, Lance
Lau, Travis Chi Wing
Short, Jon
De Cauwer, Stijn
Concepts
Public health
Vaccines; vaccination
Immunology
Biopolitics
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Modern
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Kunming (China)
Guinea
Barbados
England
West Africa
Institutions
Institut Pasteur, Paris
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