The vaccine race : science, politics, and the human costs of defeating disease

The vaccine race : science, politics, and the human costs of defeating disease / Meredith Wadman.

Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young bi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wadman, Meredith (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
Subjects:
Rubella vaccines > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
Rubella vaccines > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Rubella > Vaccination > History > 20th century.
Rubella > History.
Vaccines > History.
MMR vaccine > History.
MMR vaccine > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human experimentation in medicine > United States > History > 20th century.
Human experimentation in medicine > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Discovery
  • The Wistar reborn
  • Abnormal chromosomes and abortions
  • Dying cells and dogma
  • The Swedish source
  • Polio vaccine "Passengers"
  • Trials
  • An emerging enemy
  • Plague of the pregnant
  • Rabies
  • Orphans and ordinary people
  • The devils we know
  • Politics and persuasion
  • The great escape
  • In the bear pit
  • Cell Wars
  • DBS defeated
  • Breakthrough
  • Slaughtered babies and Skylab
  • Cell, Inc.
  • Rocky passage
  • The vaccine race
  • Biology, Inc.
  • Hayflick's limit explained
  • Boot-camp bugs and Vatican entreaties
  • The afterlife of a cell
  • Where they are now.

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