Parties and Politics in Northern Nigeria
β B. J. Dudley
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2013
π Routledge
π English
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The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria
β Scribed by Elisha P. Renne
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- Indiana University Press
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- 2010
- Tongue
- English
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- 193
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- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
First runner-up, 2011 Nigerian Studies Association Book Prize
In 2008, Northern Nigeria had the greatest number of confirmed cases of polio in the world and was the source of outbreaks in several West African countries. Elisha P. Renne explores the politics and social dynamics of the Northern Nigerian response to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which has been met with extreme skepticism, subversion, and the refusal of some parents to immunize their children. Renne explains this resistance by situating the eradication effort within the social, political, cultural, and historical context of the experience of polio in Northern Nigeria. Questions of vaccine safety, the ability of the government to provide basic health care, and the role of the international community are factored into this sensitive and complex treatment of the ethics of global polio eradication efforts.
β¦ Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Protesting Polio
2. Smallpox and Polio Histories
3. Politics and Polio in Nigeria
4. Islam and Immunization in Northern Nigeria
5. Polio, Disability, and Begging
6. Polio in Northern Nigeria and Northeastern Ghana
7. The Ethics of Eradication
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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