Vaccine by Arthur Allen (2007, Hardcover) 
Vaccine by Arthur Allen (2007, Hardcover)

 
Vaccine by Arthur Allen (2007, Hardcover)

Author: Arthur Allen
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0393059111
ISBN-13: 9780393059113
Product ID: EPID53737975
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 v...
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Synopsis
"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."--From source other than the Library of Congress

Details
Publication Date:2007-01-01

Size
Length:523 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.8 in
Weight:31.4 oz

Publisher's Note
A definitive history of vaccination ranges from Edward Jenner's 1796 creation of the world's first smallpox inoculation to the present day, looking at both the benefits of vaccination as well as the current controversy over their potential neurological side effects and the pharmaceutical companies' emphasis on treatment rather than prevention.

Industry Reviews
"In VACCINE, journalist Arthur Allen adroitly chronicles the development of the polio vaccine and many others, describing the science and serendipity behind each breakthrough and breathing life into the researchers who achieved them....[A] splendid book."
(02/01/2007)

"[A] timely, fair-minded and crisply written account of medicine's 'great lifesaver'...[A] splendid book."
(02/04/2007)

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