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...