Disease control and immunisation - A sociological enquiry

Understanding the processes through which immunisation comes to be institut ionalised as a routine practice in public health management provides an int eresting field of sociological enquiry. A wide range of issues may be exami ned in this field: processes of state formation in relation to public healt h, the practices of science in developing countries, the role of global ins titutions and policy formation, the construction of the notions of consent as well as of citizenship, the relationship between the politics of the day and research institutions, and so on. These dimensions of public health ne ed to be seriously addressed at the policy level.