Vaccination in America: Medical Science and Children's Welfare

by Richard J. Altenbaugh

Book Overview

The success of the polio vaccine was a remarkable breakthrough for medical science, effectively eradicating a dreaded childhood disease. It was also the largest medical experiment to use American schoolchildren. Richard J. Altenbaugh examines an uneasy conundrum in the history of vaccination: even as vaccines greatly mitigate the harm that infectious disease causes children, the process of developing these vaccines put children at great risk as research...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319963481
• ISBN13: 9783319963488
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"