Research Catalog

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Description

1. xiii, 332 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 16

Subject

1. Vaccination > United States > History > 20th century
2. Medical policy > United States > History > 20th century
3. Vaccination > History > United States
4. Attitude to Health > United States
5. Medical policy > History > United States
6. History, 20th Century > United States

Contents

1. Between persuasion and compulsion : vaccination at the turn of the twentieth century -- Science in a democracy : smallpox vaccination in the progressive era and the 1920s -- Diphtheria immunization : the power, and the limits, of persuasion -- Hard cores and soft spots : selling the polio vaccine -- Eradicationism and its discontents -- Consent, compulsion, and compensation : vaccination programs in crisis -- Expansion and backlash : vaccination at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Call number

1. JFE 08-2432

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Colgrove, James Keith.

Title

1. State of immunity : the politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America / James Colgrove.

Imprint

1. Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, c2006.

Series

1. California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 16

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only
2. Publisher description
3. Contributor biographical information

LCCN

1. 2006002049

Other standard identifier

1. 9780520247493

ISBN

1. 0520247493 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 9780520247499
3. 9780520247493 (cloth : alk.paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 08-2432