This work provides a comprehensive overview of the scientific breakthrough known as vaccination and the controversy surrounding its opposition. A timeline of discoveries traces the medical and societal progression of vaccines from the early development of this medical preventive to the eradication of epidemics and the present-day discussion about its role in autism.
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Cover; Half Title ; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Reader's Guide to Related Documents; Preface; Introduction; 1. How Vaccines Work ; A Mother's View of Vaccination ; A Scientist's View of Vaccination ; Vaccination and the Public Health ; A Century of Vaccination Progress ; A Microscopic View of Immunity ; 2. Nature's Way and the Beginning of Immunization (1500s-1790s) ; Smallpox as Childhood Disease ; Measles in Children ; A Doctor Describes Smallpox Inoculation ; Rash Innovation or New Discovery? ; God's Judgment or God's Blessing?.
Disturbing the Peace and Quiet of His Majesty's Subjects George Washington Orders Compulsory Inoculation of the Continental Army ; 3. Vaccination by Design: Smallpox (1790s-1830s) ; Dr. Jenner's Vaccination Rewarded by Parliament ; "It Is Passing over a Safe Bridge" ; Spreading Vaccination Worldwide; "Distracted with Doubt, and Labouring under Gloomy Apprehensions"; Who Should Be Authorized to Vaccinate?; 4. Epidemics in the Industrial Age (1840s-1860s); Making the Case for Experimental Medicine; Experiment and Observation in Action: Differential Diagnosis of Diphtheria
Can We Experiment on Disease?Yellow Fever Spreads through the Atlantic World; Cholera Spread through Trade; Slavery and the Spread of Infectious Disease; Quarantine Controversies; Soldiers' Health and Infectious Disease in the Civil War; Civil War Nursing; 5. The Germ Theory and Vaccination (1870-1900); The Germ Theory and the Science of Immunology; Growing Cholera in the Laboratory; Yellow Fever and Mosquitoes; Medical Scientist as International Hero; Vaccination Made Compulsory in the German Empire; Political Warfare over Smallpox Treatment in Milwaukee, 1894
Smallpox Epidemic in Muncie, Indiana6. Vaccines and Everyday Life (1900-1940); "The People Informing the Doctors That They Preferred Smallpox to Tetanus"; Quality Control and Damage Control; U.S. Government Regulates Vaccine Production; Impact of Federal Regulation; Vaccines in World War I; Vaccination on Vacation; Vaccines and Children's Literature; Diphtheria Goes to School; Dog Teams Save the Children of Nome; Lice and Typhus; 7. Do We Trust Our Doctors? Vaccination, Patients' Rights, and Consumer Advocacy (1940-Present); Origin of the March of Dimes
"The Only Way You Can Keep Going Is If You've Got a Sense of Humour"Kissing Elvis; Vaccines' Finest Hour; Can Patients Trust Medical Research?; Can Patients Trust the Food and Drug Administration?; "Vaccinating on Time Means Healthier Children, Families, and Communities"; Can Patients Trust Vaccines?; Medical Fraud and the Autism Scare; "You're Putting Other Children at Risk"; 8. Global Vaccination Ideals and Reality (2000-Present); Essential Vaccinations for Children; The End of Smallpox; "I'm Going to Give You an Elephant"; The End of Polio; New Epidemics, New Vaccines?; Chronology