Vaccine : the controversial story of medicine's greatest lifesaver /
Arthur Allen.
- New York ; London : W. W. Norton, 2007.
- 512 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Vaccination and Politics:- Part 1: Origins:- 1. Experimenting on the Neighbors with Cotton Mather--2. The Peculiar History of Vaccinia--3. Vaccine wars: Smallpox at the turn of the Twentieth century--Part 2: Golden Age:- 4. War is good for babies--5. The great american fight against polio--6. Battling measles, remodeling society--Part 3: Controversy:- 7. DTP and the vaccine safety movement--8. No good deed goes unpunished--9. People who prefer whooping cough--10. Vaccines and autism?.
Arthur Allen reveals a history of vaccination that is both illuminated with hope and shrouded by controversy - covering Jenner's discovery to Pasteur's vaccines for rabies and cholera, to those that safeguarded the children of the 20th century.
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Vaccination--History Communicable diseases--Prevention--History Health and Wellbeing.