Vaccines and World Health: Science, Policy, and Practice

by Paul F. Basch

Since the advent of biotechnology in the mid-1970s, many people have been attracted to the prospect that its products might bring about rapid improvements in human health, especially in the poorest countries of the world. This timely work focuses on preventive and diagnostic technologies, particularly vaccines aimed at the infectious, vector-borne and parasitic diseases so widespread in the developing world. It explains the pathways that such products...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195085329
• ISBN13: 9780195085327
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.5"