An often-stated public health comment is that “vaccination is a victim of its own success.”
While the scientific and medical consensus on the benefits of vaccination is clear and …

By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global
health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became …

Responding to the call by Maria Puig de la Bellacasa for Science and Technology Studies to
take up 'matters of care', this article cautions against equating care with positive feelings …

In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative
health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and …

Abstract Background African-Americans and Latinos suffer the highest cervical cancer
burden compared to other populations and have sub-optimal HPV vaccination rates …

It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA
and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the …

This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian
assistance. Needs are increasingly seen as the lowest common denominator of humanity …

Why do similar countries facing the same threat respond differently? To throw light on this
question, this article analyses Dutch and Danish vaccinations against the 2009 H1N1 …

Undocumented Latinx immigrants experience unique factors prior to migration, during
migration, and after migration that shape their health. Our review summarizes the limited but …

In this paper, we explore the emergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as an
object of political concern in and for countries of the global South. While epidemiologists and …