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Maël Montévil, « Vaccines, Germs, and Knowledge », HAL-SHS : histoire, philosophie et sociologie des sciences et des techniques, ID : 10670/1.6etsdp
Vaccines for COVID-19 have led to questions, debates, and polemics on both their safety and the political and geopolitical dimension of their use. We propose to take a step back on both the history of this practice and how current theories in immunology understand it. Both can contribute to providing a rational assessment of COVID-19 vaccines. This assessment cannot consider vaccine as an isolated procedure, and we discuss its intergradation with the broader question of knowledge and politics in the COVID-19 pandemic.