Naslov
The Failed Promise of a Brighter Future: The Institute of Immunology in Zagreb From a Public Asset to a Privatized Burden

Autori
Duančić, Vedran ; Ivčić, Snježana ; Vračar, Ana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Immunization and States: The Politics of Making Vaccines

Urednik/ci
Blume, Stuart ; Baylac-Paouly, Baptiste

Izdavač
Routledge

Grad
Abingdon

Godina
2022

Raspon stranica
89-109

ISBN
978-0-367-67226-3

Ključne riječi
Institute of Immunology Zagreb ; vaccine production ; history of science and medicine ; Yugoslavia ; Croatia

Sažetak
This chapter offers a brief institutional history of the Institute of Immunology in Zagreb, with an emphasis on the 1960s and the period since the 1990s, in an attempt to analyse the narrative of the ‘rise and fall’ of yet another national public vaccine production institution. As other contributions to this volume, the chapter elaborates on the social, political, and economic contexts in which the Institute has operated, and focuses on the Institute’s most important efforts in the research and production of vaccines. Going beyond the narrow institutional history, the chapter also examines a larger set of issues, including, at a very basic level, the local perception of the importance of public health. In the chapter, we link the history of medicine with economic history, and examine the labour issue. These include union actions and public protests that took place in the mid-2010s, against the backdrop of privatization of public health in Croatia since the 1990s, as well as the recent public discourse concerning the Institute’s role in maintaining national sovereignty and as a common good that should not be observed in terms of profitability alone—or, in the opinion of others, should no longer be artificially kept alive through governmental financial interventions.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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