TY - BOOK AU - Allen,Arthur TI - Vaccine: the controversial story of medicine's greatest lifesaver SN - 9780393059113 (hbk.) : AV - RA638 .A45 2007 U1 - 614.470973 ALL PY - 2007/// CY - New York, London PB - W. W. Norton KW - Vaccination KW - History KW - Communicable diseases KW - Prevention KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc N1 - 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? N2 - 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 ER -