The health of nations
Subtitle: the campaign to end polio and eradicate epidemic diseases
By: Karen Bartlett
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781786070685
Subjects: Vaccination; Communicable diseases; Prevention; History
Description: "No one will ever again die of smallpox. With the battle against that "most terrible of the ministers of death" won, an unprecedented humanitarian coalition has now turned to polio, malaria and measles."--Jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: The hippies who beat smallpox; title: The crippler; title: Polio's last stand; title: Bill Gates and the final one per cent; title: The prophet; title: The mosquito house; title: Liberty or death: the anti-vaccination movement; title: Ebola: an avoidable crisis; title: The legacy.