The Vaccination Cold War

Surveying the early responses to the Covid-19 pandemic among nation states, one finds a veritable babel of responses, some predictable and some not. Would these results have been different half a century or more ago, when smallpox was eradicated and hopes were high that international cooperation wou...

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Autores principales: Moreno, Jonathan D. 1952- (Autor) ; Sándor, Judit 1962- (Autor) ; Schmidt, Ulf 1967- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: 2021
En: The Hastings Center report
Año: 2021, Volumen: 51, Número: 5, Páginas: 12-17
Otras palabras clave:B Vaccine nationalism
B Cold War
B health data surveillance
B Covid-19
B Vaccine
B Civil liberties
B vaccine propaganda
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Sumario:Surveying the early responses to the Covid-19 pandemic among nation states, one finds a veritable babel of responses, some predictable and some not. Would these results have been different half a century or more ago, when smallpox was eradicated and hopes were high that international cooperation would yield similar results for other infectious diseases? Is this a story about the stability provided by the bipolar postwar world, juxtaposed with the complex geopolitical repositioning that finally followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, or is that too rich an irony? A multipolar world may indeed be less prepared to cope with an international health crisis than a bipolar one. In any case, the patterns of global response are not only reminiscent of the Cold War era itself but also suggestive of a new vaccination cold war.
ISSN:1552-146X
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1002/hast.1282