Vaccine effectiveness from an anthropological perspective: immunization as a marker of identity in the Republic of Serbia

Authors

  • Jelena Ćuković Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Keywords:

vaccine, Covid 19, artifact, effectiveness, opponents, advocates, epistemic responsibility

Abstract

Medical achievements are not the only or even the most important factor in solving global health problems. In the course of last year, the reception of the vaccine shows that culturally determined human behavior and choices are the main factors for the non-consensus definition of the primary problem and therefore major reason for its perpetuation and ineffective solution. The aim of the work is to observe how the anti-covid vaccine constructed cultural identity within the social network Facebook.

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2023-01-10

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Ćuković, J. (2023). Vaccine effectiveness from an anthropological perspective: immunization as a marker of identity in the Republic of Serbia. Anthropology, 22(2), 27–39. Retrieved from https://antropologija.com/index.php/an/article/view/121

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