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| Author | : Naomi Rogers |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 489 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0195380592 |
A study of Australian nurse Sister Elizabeth Kenny and her efforts to have her unorthodox methods of treating polio accepted as mainstream polio care in the United States during the 1940s. A case study of changing clinical care, and an examination of the hidden politics of philanthropies and medical societies.
| Author | : Dóra Vargha |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2018-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108420842 |
Through the lens of polio, Dóra Vargha looks anew at international health, communism and Cold War politics. This title is also available as Open Access.
| Author | : Thomas Abraham |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2018-09-01 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1787380874 |
In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each new year might see an end to the disease. But success remains elusive, against a surprisingly resilient virus, an unexpectedly weak vaccine and the vagaries of global politics, meeting with indifference from governments and populations alike. How did an innocuous campaign to rid the world of a crippling disease become a hostage of geopolitics? Why do parents refuse to vaccinate their children against polio? And why have poorly paid door-to-door healthworkers been assassinated? Thomas Abraham reports on the ground in search of answers.
| Author | : Marc Shell |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0674043545 |
In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence.
| Author | : William A. Muraskin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Poliomyelitis |
| ISBN | : 9788125046561 |
| Author | : Gareth Millward |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 151 |
| Release | : 2019-01-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 152612677X |
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War. It explores the relationship between the public and public health through five key vaccines – diphtheria, smallpox, poliomyelitis, whooping cough and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR). It reveals that while the British public has embraced vaccination as a safe, effective and cost-efficient form of preventative medicine, demand for vaccination and trust in the authorities that provide it has ebbed and flowed according to historical circumstances. It is the first book to offer a long-term perspective on vaccination across different vaccine types. This history provides context for students and researchers interested in present-day controversies surrounding public health immunisation programmes. Historians of the post-war British welfare state will find valuable insight into changing public attitudes towards institutions of government and vice versa.
| Author | : Paul A. Offit |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2007-09-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300126051 |
Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, thathas led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture. Drawing on interviews with public health officials, pharmaceutical company executives, attorneys, Cutter employees, and victims of the vaccine, as well as on previously unavailable archives, Dr. Paul Offit offers a full account of the Cutter disaster. He describes the nation's relief when the polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk in 1955, the production of the vaccine at industrial facilities such as the one operated by Cutter, and the tragedy that occurred when 200,000 people were inadvertently injected with live virulent polio virus: 70,000 became ill, 200 were permanently paralyzed, and 10 died. Dr. Offit also explores how, as a consequence of the tragedy, one jury's verdict set in motion events that eventually suppressed the production of vaccines already licensed and deterred the development of new vaccines that hold the promise of preventing other fatal diseases.
| Author | : Naomi Rogers |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780813517865 |
Dirt and Disease is a social, cultural, and medical history of the polio epidemic in the United States. Naomi Rogers focuses on the early years from 1900 to 1920, and continues the story to the present. She explores how scientists, physicians, patients, and their families explained the appearance and spread of polio and how they tried to cope with it. Rogers frames this study of polio within a set of larger questions about health and disease in twentieth-century American culture.
| Author | : Michael Kinch |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2018-07-03 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1681778203 |
If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing—cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuse to vaccinate their children. Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable story of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their social and political implications. While detailing the history of vaccine invention, Kinch reveals the ominous reality that our victories against vaccine-preventable diseases are not permanent—and could easily be undone. In the tradition of John Barry’s The Great Influenza and Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies, Between Hope and Fear relates the remarkable intersection of science, technology, and disease that has helped eradicate many of the deadliest plagues known to man.
| Author | : Timothy James Bazzett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2008-02-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780977111930 |
Combining copious and meticulous research with original letters, interviews, personal recollections and anecdotes, Tim Bazzett tells Bill Porteous's story with compassion, insight and humor. His narrative conveys a contagious and obvious delight in discovering how we are all connected. Here is a homespun history lesson about the nearly forgotten polio plague years and our fathers' and grandfathers' war, presented in a way that manages to bridge the gap between generations and even allows us to laugh a little as we learn of such serious matters. Perhaps in the end, however, Love, War & Polio is a simple and universal tale - one of faith, hope, and the healing power of love.
