Zhikharevich Dmitrii M, Paul Katharina T
Dmitrii M. Zhikharevich Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Vienna, Austria. E-mail:
Katharina T. Paul (corresponding author), Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Vienna, Austria. E-mail:
Econ Soc. 2025 Jun 26;54(2):310-333. doi: 10.1080/03085147.2025.2517951. eCollection 2025.
Economic valuations play an increasingly important role in contemporary vaccination governance. Focusing on the United States, this paper presents a genealogy of economization in immunization policy. Borrowing from Foucault, it argues that economization occurs in two distinct modalities: juridical and veridical. In the former case, economization serves the purpose of 'doing justice' to an issue or practice. In the latter case, it asks what must be true about the world for an issue or practice to be justified. Drawing on published, archival and oral history sources, we show how immunizations in the United States first became economized in a juridical modality in the 1960s. We then trace their veridical turn in the 1970s by looking at the traffic of ideas and individuals between the Centers for Disease Control and the Harvard School of Public Health.
经济评估在当代疫苗接种治理中发挥着越来越重要的作用。本文聚焦于美国，呈现了免疫政策中的经济化谱系。借鉴福柯的观点，本文认为经济化以两种不同的形式出现：司法形式和真理形式。在前一种情况下，经济化服务于对某个问题或实践 “主持公道” 的目的。在后一种情况下，它追问对于某个问题或实践而言，世界必须是什么样才是合理的。借助已发表的、档案的和口述历史资料，我们展示了美国的疫苗接种在20世纪60年代是如何首次以司法形式实现经济化的。接着，通过考察疾病控制中心与哈佛公共卫生学院之间思想和人员的交流，我们追溯了它们在20世纪70年代向真理形式的转变。
