Vaccination has greatly diminished death, illness and suffering in the world. But no other medical technology has been so dogged with controversy. The book chronicles the development of the key lifesaving vaccines since the 18th century. It tells the stories of great scientists and their discoveries, of the protests and pain along the stumbling path of progress. This is the first book to tell the whole story of vaccination for a general audience. In light of controversies about flu vaccine and autism, it will be of particular interest to parents, pediatricians, public health workers and anyone fascinated by medical history. Read More>>

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Arthur Allen is a Washington DC-based journalist who has written on vaccine issues in The New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, The New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, Salon and Slate.

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New Scientist

THE history of vaccines is full of unexpected twists. While immunisation experts may feel they do not need journalist Arthur Allen to urge them to remember such twists, and will certainly reject suggestions that polio eradication diverts resources from more important goals, this is a well-researched portrayal of immunisation, from the earliest pioneers to an arm of preventive medicine now thoroughly entangled in politics, commerce and public relations. A vivid corrective to the idealised, wholly triumphant version of the development of vaccines.

--Bernard Dixon, Jan. 20, 2007

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