Disease Control and Immunisation

Understanding the processes through which immunisation comes to be institutionalised as a routine practice in public health management provides an interesting field of sociological enquiry. A wide range of issues may be examined in this field: processes of state formation in relation to public health, the practices of science in developing countries, the role of global institutions and policy formation, the construction of the notions of consent as well as of citizenship, the relationship between the politics of the day and research institutions, and so on. These dimensions of public health need to be seriously addressed at the policy level.