Abstract

During the start of the A(H1N1) pandemic 2009, the WHO talked of the pandemic as an extreme expression of the global need for solidarity, and vaccination as the preferred national response. While s ...

Highlights

  • In the village of La Gloria in Mexico stands a statue of a little boy holding a frog in his hand

  • Considering how local authorities in La Gloria acted to frame the monument as a way to make La Gloria “live in glory”, maybe the statue was mostly meant to serve as a tourist attraction (The Guardian, April 23 2010)[4]

  • The aim of this article is to examine the entangled articulations of compassion and containment before and during the mass vaccination in Sweden and in the aftermath of the narcolepsy cases resulting from the Pandemrix vaccine

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Summary

Introduction

In the village of La Gloria in Mexico stands a statue of a little boy holding a frog in his hand. The frog was said to represent different plagues hitting humanity (The Mirror, July 25 2009)[1]. This little boy was not the first to be diagnosed and not an index case (cf Acuña-Soto and Castañeda 2011)[2]. The statue is one example of how the pandemic is “produced, suffered and remembered” to quote Kim Fortun (2001:6) [3]. It tells something about how the swine flu pandemic was framed as both a global and a national problem that targeted children and young adults. Considering how local authorities in La Gloria acted to frame the monument as a way to make La Gloria “live in glory”, maybe the statue was mostly meant to serve as a tourist attraction (The Guardian, April 23 2010)[4]

Aim and Methods
Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Vaccination as Compassionate Containment
Solidarity and Responsibility – National Concerns with Historical Roots
Waking up to Narcolepsy
Inhabiting the Contained Space of the Side Effect
Solidarity at the Needle Point – If It Happens Again
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