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Vaccination : a history : from Lady Montagu and genetic engineering / by Bazin, H.

Subjects: “…Vaccination History.…”
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The vaccination controversy the rise, reign and fall of compulsory vaccination for smallpox / by Williamson, Stanley

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Calling the shots childhood vaccination - one family's journey / by Alexander, Mary

Subjects: “…Vaccination of children.…”
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History of vaccines

Table of Contents: “…Contents: History of vaccines -- The impact of vaccination -- Variolation -- Pasteur and first real vaccines -- Inactivated vaccines at the end of the 19th Century -- Toxoids -- Attenuation by serial passage -- Viruses grown in cell culture -- Genetic engineering and recombinant vaccines -- Vaccines licensed since 2000 -- Cumulative number of vaccines developed.…”
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The politics of vaccination : A global history /

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Vaccination and national identity -- The uneasy politics of epidemic aid: the CDC's mission to Cold War East Pakistan, 1958 -- Fallacy, sacrilege, betrayal and conspiracy: the cultural construction of opposition to immunisation in India -- Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe -- 'A vaccine for the nation': South Korea's development of a hepatitis B vaccine and national prevention strategy focused on newborns -- Part II: Nationality, vaccine production and the end of sovereign manufacture -- Vaccine production, national security anxieties and the unstable state in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico -- The erosion of public sector vaccine production: the case of the Netherlands -- Yellow fever vaccine in Brazil: fighting a tropical scourge, modernising the nation -- A distinctive nation: vaccine policy and production in Japan -- Part III: Vaccination, the individual and society -- The MMR debate in the United Kingdom: vaccine scares, statesmanship and the media -- Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden -- Polio vaccination, political authority and the Nigerian state -- The power of individuals and the dependency of nations in global eradication and immunisation campaigns.…”
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A brief history of vaccines and anti-vax responses Part 1 of 2. The history of vaccination /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Infectious diseases -- Vaccine hesitancy -- Variolation -- Smallpox vaccine -- Yellow journalism -- Polio vaccine -- DPT vaccine -- Disease outbreaks -- Brian Deer -- Andrew Wakefield -- HPV vaccine -- COVID-19 vaccine -- Modern vaccine development -- Vaccines and politics.…”
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A brief history of vaccines and anti-vax responses Part 2 of 2, The anti-vax movement /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Infectious diseases -- Vaccine hesitancy -- Variolation -- Smallpox vaccine -- Yellow journalism -- Polio vaccine -- DPT vaccine -- Disease outbreaks -- Brian Deer -- Andrew Wakefield -- HPV vaccine -- COVID-19 vaccine -- Modern vaccine development -- Vaccines and politics.…”
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The Cutter incident how America's first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis / by Offit, Paul A.

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Jonas Salk : a life / by Jacobs, Charlotte

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Biodefense and special pathogen vaccines in development part 1 of 2 /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Brief history of bioterrorism -- Bioterrorism agents -- Types of vaccines -- Vaccine development: special requirements -- Unique aspects of biodefense vaccines.…”
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The death of a disease a history of the eradication of poliomyelitis / by Seytre, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…The last victims -- A lifetime burden -- A virus with a long history -- The people versus polio -- Freed from the iron lung -- Coming along at the right time: Jonas Salk -- Behind the scenes -- The largest medical experiment in history -- The race for an oral vaccine -- Revolution in the production of vaccines -- Polio: programmed for defeat -- The end game -- The challenge of eradication.…”
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Influenza virus pandemics past and future /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Influenza virus, the agent and the disease -- Epidemiology in humans and animals -- The 1918 pandemic & reconstruction of the virus -- Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus -- Future influenza pandemics -- Antiviral drugs against influenza -- Influenza virus vaccine formulations (types & usage frequency).…”
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Controlling pandemic flu

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The power of infection -- Three levels of protection -- The influenza virus -- The influenza vaccine -- Anti-viral drugs -- The three faces of hygiene -- 2009 swine flu outbreak -- Flu pandemics -- years of life lost -- Bird flu -- The common cold clinic -- influenza research in Retroscreen virology -- Influenza virus components -- The 1918 flu pandemic -- Researching the new virus on the front -- What's needed for an influenza virus to emerge? …”
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The history and foundations of medical research ethics

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Germany: medicine in national socialism -- The Nuremberg "doctors' trial" -- Research in humans: The Nuremberg Code of 1947 -- Invention of the Polio vaccine -- The Tuskegee Syphilis study -- Elements of consent -- Medical research with human subjects: Declaration of Helsinki (1964-2013) -- Research with vulnerable groups.…”
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War crimes in Japan-occupied Indonesia : a case of murder by medicine / by Baird, J. Kevin, Marzuki, Sangkot

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Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries : A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands / by Doornum, Gerard van, Sankaran, Neeraja

Table of Contents: “…Origins in the dark -- Redefining viruses -- On the fringes -- From cell culture to the molecular revolution -- Medical virology in the Netherlands after 1950 -- Techniques and instruments -- Dutch virology in the tropics -- From cancer mice in the roaring 1920s to oncogenes and signalling molecules in the booming 1990s -- Virus vaccines and immunization programmes.…”
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Infant mortality a continuing social problem /

Table of Contents: “…: infant mortality in the Lincolnshire Fens, 1870-1900 / Sam Sneddon -- Infant mortality in Northamptonshire : a vaccination register study / Tricia James -- Urban-rural differences in infant mortality : a view from the death registers of Skye and Kilmarnock, Scotland / Eilidh Garrett --…”
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