Vacca: Imagining Vaccination

Paul Smith

doi:10.21061/spectra.v8i2.179

Vacca: Imagining Vaccination

Spectra

Volume 8 (2021): Issue 2

By: Paul Smith

Open Access

|Jul 2021

Abstract

This article places the development and technology behind the COVID-19 vaccine at the intersections of globalization, capitalism, biopolitics, and our relationship with the natural word. Consideration of these intersections suggest how they shape our ideological understanding of vaccines.

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