Vaccination in America Medical Science and Children's Welfare /

The success of the polio vaccine was a remarkable breakthrough for medical science, effectively eradicating a dreaded childhood disease. It was also the largest medical experiment to use American schoolchildren. Richard J. Altenbaugh examines an uneasy conundrum in the history of vaccination: even a...

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Main Author: Altenbaugh, Richard J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Subjects:
United States-History.
Medicine-History.
Social history.
Social policy.
United States-Politics and government.
History.
ISBN:9783319963495
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: To Vaccinate, or Not to Vaccinate
  • I. Diseases, Death, and Disability
  • 2. Living on the Edge
  • 3. Bad Odors, Nasty Dust, and Dangerous Bugs
  • 4. Not My Child!
  • II. Friendly Persuasion
  • 5. Invisible Bugs Are Bad for You
  • 6. Schoolhouse Medicine
  • 7. Capstone Events
  • III. Ethical Authority?
  • 8. Mistake and Misdeeds
  • 9. Blood
  • 10. A Moral Compass?
  • 11. A Problematic Process
  • 12. School Days
  • IV. Line Up and Roll Up Your Sleeves
  • 13. Operation Needle
  • 14. The Complexities of Mass Immunization Culture
  • V. Intellectual Authority?
  • 15. A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
  • 16. What Is Science?

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