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1 online resource (xxxi, 311 pages). |
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Documentary and reference guides
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Documentary and reference guides.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This work provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific breakthrough known as vaccination and the controversy surrounding its opposition. A timeline of discoveries traces the medical and societal progression of vaccines from the early development of this medical preventive to the eradication of epidemics and the present-day discussion about its role in autism. |
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1. How Vaccines Work -- A Mother's View of Vaccination -- A Scientist's View of Vaccination -- Vaccination and the Public Health -- A Century of Vaccination Progress -- A Microscopic View of Immunity -- 2. Nature's Way and the Beginning of Immunization (1500s-1790s) -- Smallpox as Childhood Disease -- Measles in Children -- A Doctor Describes Smallpox Inoculation -- Rash Innovation or New Discovery? -- God's Judgment or God's Blessing? -- Disturbing the Peace and Quiet of His Majesty's Subjects -- George Washington Orders Compulsory Inoculation of the Continental Army -- 3. Vaccination by Design: Smallpox (1790s-1830s) -- Dr. Jenner's Vaccination Rewarded by Parliament -- "It Is Passing over a Safe Bridge" -- Spreading Vaccination Worldwide -- "Distracted with Doubt, and Labouring under Gloomy Apprehensions" -- Who Should Be Authorized to Vaccinate? -- 4. Epidemics in the Industrial Age (1840s-1860s) -- Making the Case for Experimental Medicine -- Experiment and Observation in Action: Differential Diagnosis of Diphtheria -- Can We Experiment on Disease? -- Yellow Fever Spreads through the Atlantic World -- Cholera Spread through Trade -- Slavery and the Spread of Infectious Disease -- Quarantine Controversies -- Soldiers' Health and Infectious Disease in the Civil War -- Civil War Nursing -- 5. The Germ Theory and Vaccination (1870-1900) -- The Germ Theory and the Science of Immunology -- Growing Cholera in the Laboratory -- Yellow Fever and Mosquitoes -- Medical Scientist as International Hero -- Vaccination Made Compulsory in the German Empire -- Political Warfare over Smallpox Treatment in Milwaukee, 1894 -- Smallpox Epidemic in Muncie, Indiana -- 6. Vaccines and Everyday Life (1900-1940) -- "The People Informing the Doctors That They Preferred Smallpox to Tetanus" -- Quality Control and Damage Control -- U.S. Government Regulates Vaccine Production -- Impact of Federal Regulation -- Vaccines in World War I -- Vaccination on Vacation -- Vaccines and Children's Literature -- Diphtheria Goes to School -- Dog Teams Save the Children of Nome -- Lice and Typhus -- 7. Do We Trust Our Doctors? Vaccination, Patients' Rights, and Consumer Advocacy (1940-Present) -- Origin of the March of Dimes -- "The Only Way You Can Keep Going Is If You've Got a Sense of Humour" -- Kissing Elvis -- Vaccines' Finest Hour -- Can Patients Trust Medical Research? -- Can Patients Trust the Food and Drug Administration? -- "Vaccinating on Time Means Healthier Children, Families, and Communities" -- Can Patients Trust Vaccines? -- Medical Fraud and the Autism Scare -- "You're Putting Other Children at Risk" -- 8. Global Vaccination Ideals and Reality (2000-Present) -- Essential Vaccinations for Children -- The End of Smallpox -- "I'm Going to Give You an Elephant" -- The End of Polio -- New Epidemics, New Vaccines? -- Chronology. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Vaccination -- History.
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Vaccination. |
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History. |
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Immunization.
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Immunization. |
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Health attitudes.
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine. |
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine. |
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Health attitudes. |
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MEDICAL -- Public Health. |
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rosner, Lisa. Vaccination and its critics. Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, [2017] 9781440841835 (DLC) 2016033601 |
| ISBN |
9781440841842 (electronic book) |
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1440841845 (electronic book) |
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9781440841835 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1440841837 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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