Vaccine
The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
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Word Count
132,000 words, Guess
Page Count
528 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100393331563
- ISBN-139780393331561
- Goodreads3313162
- LibraryThing2093294
- Better World Books9780393331561
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- Open LibraryOL10157742M
Classifications
- LCCRA638.A45 2008
Description
In this account of vaccination's miraculous, inflammatory past and its uncertain future, journalist Arthur Allen reveals a history both illuminated with hope and shrouded by controversy--from Edward Jenner's discovery of smallpox vaccine in 1796 to Pasteur's vaccines for rabies and cholera, to those that safeguarded the children of the twentieth century, and finally to the tumult currently surrounding vaccination. Faced with threats from anthrax to AIDS, we are a vulnerable population and can no longer depend on vaccines; numerous studies have linked childhood vaccination with various neurological disorders, and our pharmaceutical companies are more attracted to the profits of treatment than to the prevention of disease.--From publisher description.
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