Immunization : how vaccines became controversial /

Vaccines have helped mankind to tackle the dire threat of infectious disease for more than a hundred years. They have become key tools of public health and scientists are charged with developing them as quickly as possible to combat the emergence of new diseases such as Zika, SARS and Ebola. But why...

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Main Author: Blume, Stuart S., 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Reaktion Books, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. What do vaccines do?
  • 2. Technologies : the first vaccines
  • 3. Technologies : viral challenges
  • 4. Technologies : the commodification of vaccines
  • 5. Policies : hesitant beginnings
  • 6. Policies : vaccination and the Cold War
  • 7. Policies : vaccination in a globalizing world
  • 8. The roots of doubt.