Polio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polio write by Thomas Abraham. This book was released on 2018-09-01. Polio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each new year might see an end to the disease. But success remains elusive, against a surprisingly resilient virus, an unexpectedly weak vaccine and the vagaries of global politics, meeting with indifference from governments and populations alike. How did an innocuous campaign to rid the world of a crippling disease become a hostage of geopolitics? Why do parents refuse to vaccinate their children against polio? And why have poorly paid door-to-door healthworkers been assassinated? Thomas Abraham reports on the ground in search of answers.
Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines
Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines write by Institute of Medicine. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Childhood immunization is one of the major public health measures of the 20th century and is now receiving special attention from the Clinton administration. At the same time, some parents and health professionals are questioning the safety of vaccines because of the occurrence of rare adverse events after immunization. This volume provides the most thorough literature review available about links between common childhood vaccinesâ€"tetanus, diphtheria, measles, mumps, polio, Haemophilus influenzae b, and hepatitis Bâ€"and specific types of disorders or death. The authors discuss approaches to evidence and causality and examine the consequencesâ€"neurologic and immunologic disorders and deathâ€"linked with immunization. Discussion also includes background information on the development of the vaccines and details about the case reports, clinical trials, and other evidence associating each vaccine with specific disorders. This comprehensive volume will be an important resource to anyone concerned about the immunization controversy: public health officials, pediatricians, attorneys, researchers, and parents.
Polio and Its Aftermath
Polio and Its Aftermath - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polio and Its Aftermath write by Marc Shell. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Polio and Its Aftermath available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence.
The Polio Pioneer
The Polio Pioneer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Polio Pioneer write by Linda Elovitz Marshall. This book was released on 2020-08-18. The Polio Pioneer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A SYDNEY TAYLOR NOTABLE BOOK • Learn about the importance of vaccines and the scientific process through the fascinating life of world-renowned scientist Jonas Salk, whose pioneering discoveries changed the world forever. Dr. Jonas Salk is one of the most celebrated doctors and medical researchers of the 20th century. The child of immigrants who never learned to speak English, Jonas was struck by the devastation he saw when the soldiers returned from battle after WWII. Determined to help, he worked to become a doctor and eventually joined the team that created the influenza vaccine. But Jonas wanted to do more. As polio ravaged the United States--even the president was not immune!--Jonas decided to lead the fight against this terrible disease. In 1952, Dr. Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine, which nearly eliminated polio from this country. For the rest of his life, Dr. Salk continued to do groundbreaking medical research at the Salk Institute, leaving behind a legacy that continues to make the world a better place every day. This compelling picture book biography sheds light on Dr. Salk's groundbreaking journey and the importance of vaccination.
Dirt and Disease
Dirt and Disease - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dirt and Disease write by Naomi Rogers. This book was released on 1992. Dirt and Disease available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dirt and Disease is a social, cultural, and medical history of the polio epidemic in the United States. Naomi Rogers focuses on the early years from 1900 to 1920, and continues the story to the present. She explores how scientists, physicians, patients, and their families explained the appearance and spread of polio and how they tried to cope with it. Rogers frames this study of polio within a set of larger questions about health and disease in twentieth-century American culture.
