Vaccine : the controversial story of medicine's greatest lifesaver / Arthur Allen.

By:

Allen, Arthur, 1959-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York ; London : W. W. Norton, 2007.Description: 512 pISBN:

9780393059113 (hbk.) :
9780393059113 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

614.470973 ALL

LOC classification:

RA638 .A45 2007

Contents:

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection	614.470973 ALL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		203058

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.