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Background and history -- Problems, controversies, and solutions -- Perspectives -- Profiles -- Data and documents -- Resources -- Chronology. |
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1. Background and History. Infectious diseases in history ; Epidemics in early human history ; The nature of infectious diseases ; Major infectious diseases ; Smallpox ; Poliomyelitis ; Dengue fever ; Hepatitis C ; The human immune system ; Primary immune response ; Secondary immune response ; Vaccination ; The language of vaccinology ; The history of vaccination ; Variolation ; From variolation to vaccination -- 2. Problems, Controversies, and Solutions. A brief history of opposition to vaccination ; The English vaccination laws ; Anti-vaccinationism in the United States ; Vaccination laws in the United States ; Vaccination laws worldwide ; Vaccination epidemics ; Kyoto, Japan: 1948 ; Complications resulting from DTP ; Vaccinations: mid-1970s ; Polio: 1955 ; Rotavirus: 1999 ; The legal status of vaccination ; Modern anti-vaccinationism ; Vaccines cause illness ; The vaccine-autism link ; Vaccines and the Gulf War Syndrome ; Vaccines do not work ; Big business and big government ; Alternatives to vaccination ; Too aggressive vaccination schedules ; Threats from thimerosal and adjuvants ; Aluminum compounds ; Squalene ; Old wine in new bottles ; The human papillomavirus vaccine ; Where to from here? -- 3. Perspectives. HPV vaccine for all / Bob Roehr ; HPV diseases ; Other benefits ; HPV vaccine mandates: little benefit, real harm / Diane M. Harper ; Vaccine shortages: a perspective / Dean A. Haycock ; Sounds of death: whooping cough and vaccine refusal / Benjamin Radford ; Anti-vaccination fears ; Vaccination doubts / Louise Kuo Habakus ; Federal law and mandatory vaccination / Stephen Lendman ; Hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis / Joan R. Callahan ; Consequences ; What went wrong? -- 4. Profiles. Baruch S. Blumberg (1925-2011) ; Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center ; Every Child by Two ; Ian Frazer (1953- ) ; Maurice Hilleman (1919-2005) ; Immunization Action Coalition ; Edward Jenner (1749-1823) ; Albert Z. Kapikian (1930- ) ; Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980) and Grace Eldering (1901-1988) ; Shibasaburo Kitasato (1852-1931) ; Douglas R. Lowry and John T. Schiller ; Jacques Miller (1931- ) ; National Vaccine Information Center ; Ruth S. Nussenzweig (1928- ) ; Paul A. Offit (1951- ) ; Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) ; Stanley A. Plotkin (1932- ) ; Gaston Ramon (1886-1963) ; Benjamin A. Rubin (1917-2010) ; Albert Sabin (1906-1993) ; Jonas Salk (1914-1995) ; Viera Scheibner (1935- ) ; Vaccine Education Center ; Vaccination Risk Awareness Network, Inc. ; Emil von Behring (1854-1917) ; Andrew Wakefield (1957- ) ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) -- 5. Data and Documents. Data: National and state vaccination coverage among children aged 19-35 months, United States, 2010 ; Recommended immunization schedule ; Approved vaccines and their effectiveness ; Coverage of two major vaccination schedules worldwide, 1980-2010 ; Documents: Letter from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu about variolation in Turkey (1717) ; Boylston's inoculation efforts in colonial Boston (1726) ; An act to Secure General Vaccination (1855) ; Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) ; Poliomyelitis Vaccination Assistance Act, P.l. 377 Chapter 863 (1955) ; Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962 (42 USC Sec. 247b) ; National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Public law 99-660) ; Measles Eradication Program (1966) ; Project Bioshield Act, P.l. 108-276 (2004) ; Project Bioshield Assessment (2007) ; Executive Order RP65 (State of Texas) (2007) ; Texas House Bill 1098 (2007) ; Cedillo and Cedillo vs. Secretary of Health and Human Services (2010) ; Frequently asked questions about thimerosal (ethylmercury) (2011) ; Exemption from vaccination -- 6. Resources -- 7. Chronology. |
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This book provides coverage of the history and background of vaccination issues in the United States and around the world, along with a detailed examination of the issues related to the use of vaccination today. Overviews the scientific basis for and history of immunization as a method for protecting individuals against disease, along with a review of the social, political, and economic issues related to the use of immunization in both human and animal populations. |
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Vaccination -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Vaccines -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Immunization -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Immunization. |
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Vaccination. |
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Vaccines. |
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Vaccination. |
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Vaccines. |
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Immunization. |
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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9781610693127 : $58.00 |
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1610693124 : $58.00 |
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