Vaccine nation
Subtitle: America's changing relationship with immunization
By: Elena Conis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780226923765
Subjects: Vaccination; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Kennedy's Vaccination Assistance Act; title: Polio, measles, and the "dirty disease gang"; title: How serious is mumps?; title: Carter's Childhood Immunization initiative; title: A mother's responsibility; title: Tampering with nature; title: Clinton's Vaccines for Children program; title: Sex, drugs, and hepatitis B; title: Vaccine risks and the new media; title: Sex, girls, and HPV; title: Appendix. The science and regulation of vaccines.