Vaccine The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver

Name: Vaccine The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
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ISBN: 9780393331561

ISBN-10: 0393331563

ISBN-13: 9780393331561

Edition: 2008

Authors: Arthur Allen

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"A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account."New York Times Book Review Vaccinejuxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of military and medical authority in the introduction of vaccines and looks at why some parents have resisted this authority. Political and social intrigue have often accompanied vaccinationfrom the divisive introduction of smallpox inoculation in colonial Boston to the 9,000 lawsuits recently filed by parents convinced that vaccines caused their children's autism. With narrative grace and investigative journalism, Arthur Allen reveals a history…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Introduction: Vaccination and Politics



Origins



Experimenting on the Neighbors with Cotton Mather



The Peculiar History of Vaccinia



Vaccine Wars: Smallpox at the Turn of the Twentieth Century



Golden Age



War Is Good for Babies



The Great American Fight Against Polio



Battling Measles, Remodeling Society



Controversy



DTP and the Vaccine Safety Movement



No Good Deed Goes Unpunished



People Who Prefer Whooping Cough



Vaccines and Autism?


Epilogue: Our Best Shots


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index