Maurizia Mezza
Biographic Data
| ID | 4720581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurizia Mezza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurizia |
| FAMILY NAME | Mezza |
| SIGNATURE | MEZZA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anthropology, University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5752-9755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What is unhealthy about public health? Vaccination, evidence and the politics of uncertainty
Recent developments in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union suggest that public health is undergoing a crisis that is both infrastructural and epistemic. Taking the 2026 revision of US childhood vaccination recommendations as a focal case, this commentary examines how vaccination has become a privileged terrain for the political weaponisation of scientific uncertainty. We argue that the wider pressures on public health inf…
Entangled evidence
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmacovigilance activities detected and assessed symptoms, such as rare blood clotting disorders, myocarditis, and erythema multiforme, potentially linked to some adenovirus-based and mRNA-based vaccines. While some presumed side effects were swiftly assessed, others, such as menstrual disorders following mRNA vaccination, were subjected to prolonged debates. This paper explores the EMA’s assessment proc…
Turning suffering into side effects
How do unpleasant post-vaccination symptoms become recognized as vaccine 'side effects'? In this paper, we argue that it is not necessarily the logical outcome of scientific verification that it is said to be. The paper draws on an ethnographic study carried out in a small town, El Carmen de Bolivar, on Colombia's Caribbean coast from February through May 2019. In 2014, hundreds of girls in the town reported a range of mysterious symptoms followi…
Turning suffering into side effects
How do unpleasant post-vaccination symptoms become recognized as vaccine 'side effects'? In this paper, we argue that it is not necessarily the logical outcome of scientific verification that it is said to be. The paper draws on an ethnographic study carried out in a small town, El Carmen de Bolivar, on Colombia's Caribbean coast from February through May 2019. In 2014, hundreds of girls in the town reported a range of mysterious symptoms followi…
Turning suffering into side effects
How do unpleasant post-vaccination symptoms become recognized as vaccine 'side effects'? In this paper, we argue that it is not necessarily the logical outcome of scientific verification that it is said to be. The paper draws on an ethnographic study carried out in a small town, El Carmen de Bolivar, on Colombia's Caribbean coast from February through May 2019. In 2014, hundreds of girls in the town reported a range of mysterious symptoms followi…
Entangled evidence
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmacovigilance activities detected and assessed symptoms, such as rare blood clotting disorders, myocarditis, and erythema multiforme, potentially linked to some adenovirus-based and mRNA-based vaccines. While some presumed side effects were swiftly assessed, others, such as menstrual disorders following mRNA vaccination, were subjected to prolonged debates. This paper explores the EMA’s assessment proc…
What is unhealthy about public health? Vaccination, evidence and the politics of uncertainty
Recent developments in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union suggest that public health is undergoing a crisis that is both infrastructural and epistemic. Taking the 2026 revision of US childhood vaccination recommendations as a focal case, this commentary examines how vaccination has become a privileged terrain for the political weaponisation of scientific uncertainty. We argue that the wider pressures on public health inf…
Global Security and Public Health (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (1 work) · COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction (1 work) · Diversity and Career in Medicine (1 work)