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Vaccine Inequities and the Legacies of Colonialism: Speculative Fiction’s Challenge to Medicine

New vaccines to prevent COVID-19 and malaria underscore the importance of scientific advances to promote public health globally. How is credit for such scientific discoveries attributed, and who benefits? The complex narrative of Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome, both historical and speculativ...

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Autores principales: Penner, Louise, Sprague, Courtenay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9899654/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36740657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-023-09782-5
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description New vaccines to prevent COVID-19 and malaria underscore the importance of scientific advances to promote public health globally. How is credit for such scientific discoveries attributed, and who benefits? The complex narrative of Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome, both historical and speculative, demonstrates how medicine has come to value particular kinds of advances over others, prompting readers to question who controls access to resources and at what cost to global populations. In Ghosh’s imagined world, scientific discovery is evaluated and rewarded—and ultimately deemed necessary—for its ability to serve communal, public health needs.
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spelling pubmed-98996542023-02-06 Vaccine Inequities and the Legacies of Colonialism: Speculative Fiction’s Challenge to Medicine Penner, Louise Sprague, Courtenay J Med Humanit Article New vaccines to prevent COVID-19 and malaria underscore the importance of scientific advances to promote public health globally. How is credit for such scientific discoveries attributed, and who benefits? The complex narrative of Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome, both historical and speculative, demonstrates how medicine has come to value particular kinds of advances over others, prompting readers to question who controls access to resources and at what cost to global populations. In Ghosh’s imagined world, scientific discovery is evaluated and rewarded—and ultimately deemed necessary—for its ability to serve communal, public health needs. Springer US 2023-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9899654/ /pubmed/36740657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-023-09782-5 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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