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Stuart Blume

Stuart Blume is emeritus professor of science and technology studies at the University of Amsterdam and author of Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial (Reaktion Books, 2017).

Pandemic preparedness: new vaccines are not enough

Maurizia Mezza and Stuart Blume

Rapid deployment of vaccines is the key lesson being taken from the Covid-19 pandemic. It should not be the only one.

Covid-19 and the ‘deserving’ vulnerable

Stuart Blume and Vesna Trifunović

In public vaccination programmes, all humans should be equal. But some have proved more equal than others.

Ukrainian refugees and vaccination challenges

Vesna Trifunović and Stuart Blume

We are facing two huge crises: Ukraine and the pandemic. But no one is putting them together.

What when there’s a vaccine?

Stuart Blume and Maurizia Mezza

Amid the accelerated scientific quest for a vaccine against the coronavirus, crucial ethical and social questions have not yet been addressed.