State of immunity:the politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America
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Published: |
University of California Press Milbank Memorial Fund,
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Publisher Address: | Berkeley New York |
Publication Dates: | c2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 16 |
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Carrier Form: | xiii, 332 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0520247493 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520247499 |
Index Number: | R186 |
CLC: | R186-097.12 |
Call Number: | R186-097.12/C695 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Between persuasion and compulsion : vaccination at the turn of the twentieth century -- Science in a democracy : smallpox vaccination in the progressive era and the 1920s -- Diphtheria immunization : the power, and the limits, of persuasion -- Hard cores and soft spots : selling the polio vaccine -- Eradicationism and its discontents -- Consent, compulsion, and compensation : vaccination programs in crisis -- Expansion and backlash : vaccination at the turn of the twenty-first century. |