Vaccination in America Medical Science and Children's Welfare /

• Main Author: Altenbaugh, Richard J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subjects: United States-History.; Medicine-History.; Social history.; Social policy.; United States-Politics and government.; History.; US History.; History of Medicine.; Social History.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.; US Politics.; History of Science.

The success of the polio vaccine was a remarkable breakthrough for medical science, effectively eradicating a dreaded childhood disease. It was also the largest medical experiment to use American schoolchildren. Richard J. Altenbaugh examines an uneasy conundrum in the history of vaccination: even a...