State of Immunity The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America

Name: State of Immunity The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780520247499

ISBN-10: 0520247493

ISBN-13: 9780520247499

Edition: 2006

Authors: James Colgrove

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This first comprehensive history of the social and political aspects of vaccination in the United States tells the story of how vaccination became a widely accepted public health measure over the course of the twentieth century. One hundred years ago, just a handful of vaccines existed, and only one, for smallpox, was widely used. Today more than two dozen vaccines are in use, fourteen of which are universally recommended for children.State of Immunityexamines the strategies that health officials have used--ranging from advertising and public relations campaigns to laws requiring children to be immunized before they can attend school--to gain public acceptance of vaccines. Like any medical…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/5/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 349
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Vaccination Politics and Law in American History



Between Persuasion and Compulsion: Vaccination at the Turn of the Twentieth Century



Science in a Democracy: Smallpox Vaccination in the Progressive Era and the 1920s



Diphtheria Immunization: The Power, and the Limits, of Persuasion



Hard Cores and Soft Spots: Selling the Polio Vaccine



Eradicationism and Its Discontents



Consent, Compulsion, and Compensation: Vaccination Programs in Crisis



Expansion and Backlash: Vaccination at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century


Notes


Archival Sources


Index