Vaccines: A Biography

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Artenstein, Andrew W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine > History.; Microbiology.; Medicine.; Health.; Life Sciences.; Medical Microbiology.; Infectious Diseases.; History of Medicine.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.

Recounting the social, cultural, and scientific history of vaccines, Vaccines: A Biography traces the lineage—the ‘biography’—of individual vaccines, originating with deeply rooted medical problems, following ideas as they are conceived and developed, leading eventually to practical, preventive solu...

Table of Contents:

• Vaccinology in Context: The Historical Burden of Infectious Diseases
• Smallpox
• A Brief History of Microbiology and Immunology
• Anthrax
• Rabies
• Killed Vaccines: Cholera, Typhoid, and Plague
• Toxoid Vaccines
• Tuberculosis and BCG
• The Discovery of Viruses and the Evolution of Vaccinology
• Yellow Fever
• Influenza
• Polio
• Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
• Diseases of Military Importance
• Varicella and Zoster
• Polysaccharide Vaccines
• Hepatitis B
• Japanese Encephalitis
• Hepatitis A
• Rotavirus
• Human Papillomaviruses
• The Future of Vaccine Discovery and Development.