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Intradermal Immunization
Springer 2011; US$ 149.99This volume of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology covers diverse topics related to intradermal immunization. The chapters highlight the effectiveness of intradermal immunization in experimental animal models or in clinical practice, all supporting the view that intradermal immunization is at least as good as other immunization routes. Keeping... more...
The Grand Challenge for the Future
Springer 2006; US$ 119.99The urgently needed vaccines are those against poverty-related diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and HIV. This book provides a link between vaccine development and application under the particular conditions in developing countries. more...
Mass Vaccination
Springer 2006; US$ 139.99Emphasizes that vaccination is always both a matter of individual and community protection, and that massive public health efforts are often needed to control infectious diseases in the most effective manner. more...
The Vaccine Controversy
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 52.00While millions of Americans receive vaccinations each year, a vocal segment of the population is opposed to all immunizations?some even refusing to get mandated vaccinations for their children. In The Vaccine Controversy, Dr. Kurt Link?a specialist in internal medicine?explores that paradox and provides a history of vaccine development, including such... more...
The Politics of Vaccination
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 85.00The introduction of public vaccination was among the greatest of public health triumphs. By the end of the nineteenth century, legislation framed and implemented by medical experts in Britain's government brought smallpox under control for the first time. more...
Vaccinations and Public Concern in History
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 125.00Vaccinations and Public Concern in History explores vernacular beliefs and practices that surround decisions not to vaccinate. Through the use of ethnographic, media, and narrative analyses, this book explores the vernacular explanatory models used in inoculation decision-making. The research on which the book draws was designed to help create public... more...
Vaccines
Springer 2009; US$ 159.99The History and Biography of Vaccines against Infectious Diseases is a multi-authored book, written for an academic audience but accessible to a general readership as well. The book examines the human stories that underlie the development of vaccines against infectious diseases. Each chapter traces the lineage of a vaccine by examining the people behind... more...
The Panic Virus
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 16.00WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE? In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch one of the most devastating health scares ever. In the... more...
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