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  title info:
    title: Vaccinating Britain
    sub title: Mass vaccination and the public since the Second World War
  name:
    name part: Millward, Gareth
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 p.)
  abstract: Vaccinating Britain investigates the relationship between the British public and vaccination policy since 1945. It is the first book to examine British vaccination policy across the post-war period and covers a range of vaccines, providing valuable context and insight for those interested in historical or present-day public health policy debates. Drawing on government documents, newspapers, internet archives and medical texts it shows how the modern vaccination system became established and how the public played a key role in its formation. British parents came to accept vaccination as a safe, effective and cost-efficient preventative measure. But occasional crises showed that faith in the system was tied to contemporary concerns about the medical profession, the power of the state and attitudes to individual vaccines. Thus, at times the British public demanded more comprehensive vaccination coverage from the welfare state; at others they eschewed specific vaccines that they thought were dangerous or unnecessary. Moreover, they did not always act uniformly, with "the public" capable of expressing contradictory demands that were often at odds with official policy. This case study of Britain's vaccination system provides insight into the relationship between the British public and the welfare state, as well as contributing to the historiography of public health and medicine.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part I: The development and evolution of the vaccination programme -- 1. Diphtheria -- 2. Smallpox -- 3. Poliomyelitis -- Part II: Vaccination crises -- 4. Pertussis -- 5. MMR -- Conclusion -- Index.
  note: Gareth Millward.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Health attitudes
  subject:
    topic: Mass Vaccination
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Immunization Programs
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Public Opinion
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Health Policy
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Attitude to Health
  subject:
    topic: History, 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: History, 21st Century
  subject:
    geographic: United Kingdom
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sciences sociales
  subject:
    topic: Attitudes à l'égard de la santé
  subject:
    topic: Médecine
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Médecine
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 21e siècle
  subject:
    topic: social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Medicine: general issues
  subject:
    topic: History of medicine
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: vaccination
  subject:
    topic: medicine
  classification: RA638
  classification: 2019 C-924
  classification: WA 11 FA1
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    title info:
      title: Vaccinating Britain
    name:
      name part: Millward, Gareth.
    origin info:
      publisher: [s.l.] : Manchester University Press, 2019
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Social histories of medicine
  identifier: 1526126761
  identifier: 9781526126771
  identifier: 1526126753
  identifier: 9781526126757
  identifier: 9781526126764
  identifier: ManchesterUniversityPress10557 Ingram Content Group
  identifier: https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526126764/9781526126764.xml
  record info:
    record content source: UKKNU
    record creation date: 200609
    record change date: 20250729213202.1
    record identifier: in00005653452
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng