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Also by Arthur Allen:

The Fantastic Laboratory Of Dr. Weigl, August 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Ripe, March 2010
Hardcover
Vaccine, May 2008
Paperback (reprint)
Vaccine, January 2007
Hardcover

VACCINE
By: Arthur Allen

The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver

W. W. Norton
May 2008
On Sale: May 1, 2008
528 pages
ISBN: 0393331563
EAN: 9780393331561
Paperback (reprint)
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Self-Help Health

Vaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of military and medical authority in the introduction of vaccines and looks at why some parents have resisted this authority. Political and social intrigue have often accompanied vaccination—from the divisive introduction of smallpox inoculation in colonial Boston to the 9,000 lawsuits recently filed by parents convinced that vaccines caused their children's autism. With narrative grace and investigative journalism, Arthur Allen reveals a history illuminated by hope and shrouded by controversy, and he sheds new light on changing notions of health, risk, and the common good. 16 pages of illustrations.

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