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    The politics of vaccination : A global history /

    Published 2017
    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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    Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines

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    BMC Immunology

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    Retrovirology

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    Tropical Medicine and Health

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    BMC Public Health

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    Dr. Golem how to think about medicine / by Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Medicine as science and medicine as succor -- The hole in the heart of medicine: the placebo effect -- Faking it for real: bogus doctors -- Tonsils: diagnosing and dealing with uncertainty -- Alternative medicine: the cases of vitamin C and cancer -- Yuppie flu, fibromyalgia, and other contested diseases -- Defying death: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) -- The AIDS activists -- Vaccination and parents' rights: measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), and pertussis -- Conclusion: the themes revisited.…”
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    Ethical issues in international biomedical research : a casebook /

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Controversy surrounding the scientific value of the VaxGen/Aventis (RV144) phase 3 vaccine trial in Thailand -- Fair subject and community selection. …”
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    Viruses and cancer

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Contents: Oncogenic viruses of animals and humans have given us insights into cancer in general -- Specific genes involved in cancer such as oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes were first discovered through research on tumor viruses -- Only a subset of viruses cause cancer -- For cancers caused by viruses, the viruses are a necessary but insufficient cause of the disease -- Cancer is multifactorial and different risk factors act together -- Vaccines hold great promise to reduce the cancer burden -- The incidence is higher in immunodeficient people -- Transplant recipients and AIDS.…”
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    Clinical and Translational Medicine

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    Infectious Agents and Cancer

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    Virology Journal

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    Molecular Cancer

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    Infectious Diseases and Therapy

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    Veterinary Research

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    Gut Pathogens

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