Colloque – Vaccination, Society and Politics
Berlin, 28-30 April
Vaccination, Society and Politics. Sociopolitical developments and the implementation of new medical practices- analyzed through the practice of vaccination.
Organized by Berlin School of Public Health and Institute of the History of Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin.
In 2007, the Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was the first of its kind after a decades search to prevent a cancer, cervical carcinoma, to be officially recommended by the German government.While it is an important step in individual cancer prevention, this vaccine also adds a new milestone to vaccination history itself.
The symposium seeks to examine the complexities of the supposedly existing paradigm change in vaccination practice through a historical and sociopolitical lens. Presentations will combine the current historical and social science research on vaccination practice on societal and individual levels with the analysis of the different political and social contexts in which vaccination has been carried out.
Further information at http://bsph.charite.de/aktuelles/
For further information and to register please contact _Susanne Blödt at_ Susanne.bloedt@charite.de <mailto:Susanne.bloedt@charite.de>.
Program:
*Thursday, April 28, 2011*
9.15
Christine Holmberg/Marion Hulverscheidt: Introduction//
Session 1 The meaning of the development of a „population“-based national policy for the implementation of medical practices – the smallpox vaccine as stabilizer of the population of the nation state__
9.30
Marion Hulverscheidt, Berlin: The development of the smallpox vaccine in the nation state in the 19th century.
10.15
Eberhard Wolff, Zürich: Smallpox vaccine: example of modern culture in prevention?
11.00
Coffee break
11.30
Axel Hüntelmann, Bielefeld: The biopolitical development from 1848 to Wilhelmine Germany.
11.45
Commentary (Volker Hess, Berlin) and discussion
12.30
Lunch break
Session 2 The demarcation and establishment of national identity – introducing a vaccine to counter tuberculosis
14.00
Christian Bonah, Strassburg: Evidence and implementation: BCG vaccination strategies with human beings in France, Germany and Great Britain, 1905- 1960
14.45
Niels Brimnes, Aarhus: The unwanted vaccine – opposition to BCG vaccination in India 1948-1958′
15.30
Coffee break
16.00
Arnd Bauerkämper, Berlin: The Transfer of Knowledge and the Twisted Road to a Transnational Civil Society. Recent Research and Perspectives of Scholarship in Historical Perspective
16.45
Commentary (Christoph Gradmann, Oslo) and Discussion
17.30
Session finishes
*Friday, April 29, 2011*
Session 3 Globalization and liberation – Vaccination becomes success strategy and disease extinction the goal of international policy
9.30
Paul Grenough, Iowa City: Vaccination, Liberation and Globalization: Three Super Currencies in the Late-Modern Bazaar
10.15
Stuart Blume/Janneke Tump, Amsterdam: The development and introduction of new vaccines in the Netherlands, 1960-2000
11.00
Coffee break
11.45
Andrea Stöckl, Norwich: The MMR debate – the state, its citizens, and public health
12.30
Lunch break
Session 4 Neoliberalism and Health Prevention
14.00
Signild Vallgarda, Kopenhagen: Governing technologies and governing ambitions in public health policies. Continuity and change
14.45
Samantha Gottlieb, San Francisco: Manufactured Uncertainty: Merck and the commodification of choice
15.30
Coffee break
16.00
Laura Mamo, San Francisco: Risky Girlhood – how the HPV-vaccine became the right tool for U.S. cancer prevention
16.45
Discussion
17.30
Session finishes
*Saturday, April 30, 2011*
Session 5 Development of medical practices in light of sociopolitical changes
9.30
Katja Sabisch, Bochum: “Hopelessly infested”: the discursive infectiosity of the Human papillomavirus in German media, 2006-2009“
10.15
Ilana Löwy, Paris: « Because of the risk »: Debates on HPV vaccine in France and in Brasil
11.00
Coffee break
11.30
NN: Commentary with an outlook on GAVI – new forms of global governance and public-private partnerships?
12.15
Marion Hulverscheidt/Christine Holmberg: Final discussion with the development of new, joint research projects
13.00
Farewell
14.00
Symposium finishes
