Intimidation, coercion and resistance in the final stages of the South Asian Smallpox Eradication Campaign, 1973–1975
| Autor: | Paul R. Greenough |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
Economic growth
medicine.medical_specialty Asia Internationality Health (social science) Coercion Developing country Federal Government Resistance (psychoanalysis) Mandatory Programs World Health Organization History and Philosophy of Science Global health medicine Humans Smallpox Developing Countries Immunization Programs business.industry Public health Medical Missions Cultural Diversity History 20th Century medicine.disease Vaccination Intimidation Communicable Disease Control Professional Misconduct business Smallpox Vaccine |
| Zdroj: | Social Science & Medicine. 41:633-645 |
| ISSN: | 0277-9536 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00035-6 |
| Popis: | This paper reviews episodes during 1973-1975 when American physician-epidemiologists in South Asia, working under the auspices of the World Health Organization, intimidated local health officials and resorted to coercive methods in the final stages of the Smallpox Eradication Programme. While intimidation and coercion were successful in the short-run in ensuring disease containment, they evoked health-professional and popular resentments, and the long-term effect may have been to foster negative attitudes toward subsequent vaccination campaigns. At the very least these episodes suggest a need for paying attention to actual and perceived abuses when global health measures are introduced from 'above' into regional settings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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