Immunization

How Vaccines Became Controversial

Stuart Blume (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2021
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-504-5 (ISBN)

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A history of immunization over the last 100 years, from Louis Pasteur to Covid-19.

At a time when vaccines are a vital tool in the fight against Covid-19 in all its various mutations this hard-hitting book takes a longer historical perspective. It argues that globalization and cuts to healthcare have been eroding faith in the institutions producing and providing vaccines for more than thirty years. It tells the history of immunization from the work of early pioneers such as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch through the eradication of smallpox in 1980, to the recent introduction of new kinds of genetically engineered vaccines.
Immunization exposes the limits of public health authorities while suggesting how they can restore our confidence. Public health experts and all those considering vaccinations should read this timely history.

Stuart Blume is Emeritus Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Educated at Oxford University, he has previously worked at the University of Sussex, the London School of Economics and in Whitehall.

Preface
1. What do Vaccines do?
2. Technologies: The First Vaccines
3. Technologies: Viral Challenges
4. Technologies: The Commodification of Vaccines
5. Policies: Hesitant Beginnings
6. Policies: Vaccination and the Cold War
7. Policies: Vaccination in a Globalizing World
8. The Roots of Doubt
References
Additional Reading
Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-78914-504-X / 178914504X
ISBN-13	978-1-78914-504-5 / 9781789145045
Zustand	Neuware