Title
Vaccine : the controversial story of medicine's greatest lifesaver / Arthur Allen.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780393059113
0393059111
Publication Details
New York : W.W. Norton, c2007.
Language
English
Description
523 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
RA638 .A45 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
614.4/70973
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."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 445-497) and index.
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?
