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Vaccines: A Biography

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Editors:
  1. Andrew W. Artenstein

    1. Dept. Medicine & Community Health, Brown University, Providence, U.S.A.

  • The concept and practice of vaccination ranks among the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century
  • Chapter authors are individuals who are actively or were formerly engaged in vaccine development
  • Authors bring a unique perspective and an intimate understanding of vaccine history
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Why another book about vaccines? There are already a few extremely well-written medical textbooks that provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art technical reviews regarding vaccine science. Additionally, in the past decade alone, a number of engrossing, provocative books have been published on various related issues ra- ing from vaccines against specific diseases to vaccine safety and policy. Yet there remains a significant gap in the literature – the history of vaccines. Vaccines: A Biography seeks to fill a void in the extant literature by focusing on the history of vaccines and in so doing, recounts the social, cultural, and scientific history of vaccines; it places them within their natural, historical context. The book traces the lineage – the “biography” – of individual vaccines, originating with deeply rooted medical problems and evolving to an eventual conclusion. Nonetheless, these are not “biographies” in the traditional sense; they do not trace an individual’s growth and development. Instead, they follow an idea as it is conceived and dev- oped, through the contributions of many. These are epic stories of discovery, of risk-takers, of individuals advancing medical science, in the words of the famous physical scientist Isaac Newton, “by standing on the shoulders of giants. ” One grant reviewer described the book’s concept as “triumphalist”; although meant as an indictment, this is only partially inaccurate.

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Rabies

    • Hervé Bourhy, Annick Perrot, Jean-Marc Cavaillon

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  2. Hepatitis A

    • Leonard N. Binn, Stanley M. Lemon

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Medicine & Community Health, Brown University, Providence, U.S.A.

    Andrew W. Artenstein

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