Title:
Vaccine nation : America's changing relationship with immunization / Elena Conis.
Author:
Conis, Elena, author.
Publication Information:
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
©2015
Call Number:
RA638 .C66 2015
Abstract:
While vaccination rates have soared and cases of preventable infections have plummeted, an increasingly vocal cross section of Americans have questioned the safety and necessity of vaccines. In Vaccine Nation, Elena Conis explores this complicated history and its consequences for personal and public health.
ISBN:
9780226923765
Physical Description:
353 pages ; 24 cm
Subject Term:
Contents:
Kennedy's Vaccination Assistance Act -- Polio, measles, and the "dirty disease gang" -- How serious is mumps? -- Carter's Childhood Immunization initiative -- A mother's responsibility -- Tampering with nature -- Clinton's Vaccines for Children program -- Sex, drugs, and hepatitis B -- Vaccine risks and the new media -- Sex, girls, and HPV -- Appendix. The science and regulation of vaccines.
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