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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: To Vaccinate, or Not to Vaccinate
• I. Diseases, Death, and Disability
• 2. Living on the Edge
• 3. Bad Odors, Nasty Dust, and Dangerous Bugs
• 4. Not My Child!
• II. Friendly Persuasion
• 5. Invisible Bugs Are Bad for You
• 6. Schoolhouse Medicine
• 7. Capstone Events
• III. Ethical Authority?
• 8. Mistake and Misdeeds
• 9. Blood
• 10. A Moral Compass?
• 11. A Problematic Process
• 12. School Days
• IV. Line Up and Roll Up Your Sleeves
• 13. Operation Needle
• 14. The Complexities of Mass Immunization Culture
• V. Intellectual Authority?
• 15. A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
• 16. What Is Science?