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Chasing Polio in Pakistan: Why the World’s Largest Public Health Initiative May Fail

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The number of global polio cases has fallen dramatically and eradication is within sight, but despite ordinary efforts, polio retains its grip in a couple of areas. Anthropologist Svea Closser follows the trajectory of the polio eradication effort in Pakistan, some of the last four countries on this planet with endemic polio. Journeying from vaccination campaigns in rural Pakistan to the center of global health decision making at the World Health Organization in Geneva, the creator explores the historical and cultural underpinnings of eradication as a public health strategy, and reveals the culture of optimism that characterizes—and now and again cripples—global health institutions.

With a keen ethnographic eye, Closser describes the complex power negotiations that underlie the eradication effort at every level, tracking techniques of resistance employed by district health workers and state governments alike. This book offers an analysis of local politics, social relations, and global political economy in the implementation of a world wide public health effort, with broad implications for understanding what is conceivable in global health, now and for the future.

This book is the recipient of the once a year Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for the most efficient project in the area of medicine.

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