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6%OFFElisha Renne - The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria - 9780253222282 - V9780253222282
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The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria

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Description for The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria Paperback. The social dynamics of global polio eradication Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 color illus., 6 b&w illus., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; MBNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.

In 2008, Northern Nigeria had the greatest number of confirmed cases of polio in the world and was the source of outbreaks in several West African countries. Elisha P. Renne explores the politics and social dynamics of the Northern Nigerian response to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which has been met with extreme skepticism, subversion, and the refusal of some parents to immunize their children. Renne explains this resistance by situating the eradication effort within the social, political, cultural, and historical context of the experience of polio in Northern Nigeria. Questions of vaccine safety, the ability of the government to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253222282
SKU
V9780253222282
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About Elisha Renne
Elisha P. Renne is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. She is author of Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town and Cloth That Does Not Die and editor (with E. van de Walle) of Regulating Menstruation.

Reviews for The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria
The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria is a detailed examination of efforts being made to eradicate polio in an area in which polio is endemic and that in 2006 had the largest number of naturally occurring (wild) polio cases in the world. The author painstakingly examines the failure to eradicate the disease after more than a decade of trying. ... Read more

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