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Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 528 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. In 1796 AS Smallpox ravaged Europe. Edward Jenner injected to a child with a benign version of the disease. Then exposed the child to the deadly Virus itself . The boy proved resistant to smallpox and Jenner's risky experiment produced the earliest vaccination. This deftly written account reveals a history of vaccination that is both illuminated with hope and shrouded by controversy-from Jenner's discovery to Pasteur's vaccines for rabies and cholera. to those that safeguarded the children of the twentieth century and to the tumult surrounding vaccination today.Arthur Allen explores our shifting understanding of vaccination since its creation. Faced with threats from anthrax to AIDS. we can no longer depend on vaccines; numerous studies have linked childhood vaccination with various neurological disorders and ph...Read More

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    In 1796 as smallpox ravaged Europe Edward Jenner injected a child with a benign version of the disease then exposed the child to the deadly virus itself. The boy proved resistant to smallpox and Jenner's risky experiment produced the earliest vaccination. This title reveals a history of vaccination.

  • Blackwell

    A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account.-New York Times Book Review Vaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of...

  • 0393331563
  • 9780393331561
  • A Allen
  • 23 May 2008
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 544
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