The vaccine race : science, politics, and the human costs of defeating disease / Meredith Wadman.
The vaccine race : science, politics, and the human costs of defeating disease / Meredith Wadman.
The vaccine race : science, politics, and the human costs of defeating disease / Meredith Wadman.
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New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
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G 2017/2890
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English
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436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Beginnings -- Discovery -- The Wistar reborn -- Abnormal chromosomes and abortions -- Dying cells and dogma -- The Swedish source -- Polio vaccine "Passengers" -- Trials -- An emerging enemy -- Plague of the pregnant -- Rabies -- Orphans and ordinary people -- The devils we know -- Politics and pers...
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New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted fr...
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The vaccine race : science, politics, and the human costs of defeating disease / Meredith Wadman.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-419) and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/2890
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74VKVaQxZyGA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaQxZyGA
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9780525427537
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614.523
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991024104414302626
