A history of vaccines and their opponents. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ian R. Tizard.
• Authors: Tizard, Ian R
• Contents: 1. How vaccines work 2. Medical science at the beginning of the 18th century 3. Variolation: the early years in Britain and Europe 4. Variolation in New England 5. Variolation and American independence 6. The introduction of vaccination in Britain and Europe 7. The introduction of vaccination to America 8. Making vaccination compulsory in Britain and Europe 9. Vaccine mandates in the United States 10. Anti-inoculation and anti-vaccination riots 11. The Supreme Court weighs in 12. The rise of anti-vaccine societies in Britain 13. Anti-vaccination movements in the United States and Canada 14. Medical liberty and vaccination 15. Developments and dead ends in immunology 16. Antibacterial vaccines and their opponents 17. Polio vaccines and their opponents 18. Measles, mumps, and rubella: three contentious virus diseases 19. Safety and sexual promiscuity: hepatitis B, human papilloma virus, and influenza vaccines 20. COVID-19: politics and disinformation 21. Religious objections to vaccination 22. Rational hesitancy: situations where hesitancy is and was appropriate
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Subjects: 614.4709; Vaccination -- History; Vaccine hesitancy -- History; Vaccines -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780443134333
• Related ISBNs: 9780443134340
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