Vaccine : the controversial story of medicine's greatest lifesaver / Arthur Allen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, Edition: 1st edDescription: 523 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0393059111
  • 9780393059113
  • 9780393331561
  • 0393331563
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 614.4/70973 22
LOC classification:
  • RA638 .A45 2007
NLM classification:
  • 2007 C-747
  • QW 805
Online resources:
Contents:
Experimenting on the neighbors with Cotton Mather -- The peculiar history of vaccinia -- Vaccine wars: smallpox at the turn of the Twentieth Century -- War is good for babies -- The great American fight against polio -- Battling measles, remodeling society -- DTP and the vaccine safety movement -- No good deed goes unpunished -- People who prefer whooping cough -- Vaccines and autism?
Summary: "In this account of vaccination's miraculous, inflammatory past and its uncertain future, journalist Arthur Allen reveals a history both illuminated with hope and shrouded by controversy--from Edward Jenner's discovery of smallpox vaccine in 1796 to Pasteur's vaccines for rabies and cholera, to those that safeguarded the children of the twentieth century, and finally to the tumult currently surrounding vaccination. Faced with threats from anthrax to AIDS, we are a vulnerable population and can no longer depend on vaccines; numerous studies have linked childhood vaccination with various neurological disorders, and our pharmaceutical companies are more attracted to the profits of treatment than to the prevention of disease.--From publisher description."--Source other than the Library of Congress.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-497) and index.

"In this account of vaccination's miraculous, inflammatory past and its uncertain future, journalist Arthur Allen reveals a history both illuminated with hope and shrouded by controversy--from Edward Jenner's discovery of smallpox vaccine in 1796 to Pasteur's vaccines for rabies and cholera, to those that safeguarded the children of the twentieth century, and finally to the tumult currently surrounding vaccination. Faced with threats from anthrax to AIDS, we are a vulnerable population and can no longer depend on vaccines; numerous studies have linked childhood vaccination with various neurological disorders, and our pharmaceutical companies are more attracted to the profits of treatment than to the prevention of disease.--From publisher description."--Source other than the Library of Congress.

Experimenting on the neighbors with Cotton Mather -- The peculiar history of vaccinia -- Vaccine wars: smallpox at the turn of the Twentieth Century -- War is good for babies -- The great American fight against polio -- Battling measles, remodeling society -- DTP and the vaccine safety movement -- No good deed goes unpunished -- People who prefer whooping cough -- Vaccines and autism?

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