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Vaccination and its critics : a documentary and reference guide /
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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara, California :
Greenwood,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Documentary and reference guides.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.