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Vaccination in America
Richard J. Altenbaugh
其他書名
Medical Science and Children’s Welfare
出版
Springer
, 2018-08-02
主題
History / United States / General
Medical / History
History / Social History
Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy
Political Science / American Government / General
Science / History
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / General
Political Science / Public Policy / General
Political Science / General
ISBN
331996349X
9783319963495
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Aj1nDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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 as vaccines greatly mitigate the harm that infectious disease causes children, the process of developing these vaccines put children at great risk as research subjects. In the first half of the twentieth century, in the face of widespread resistance to vaccines, public health officials gradually medicalized American culture through mass media, public health campaigns, and the public education system. Schools supplied tens of thousands of young human subjects to researchers, school buildings became the main dispensaries of the polio antigen, and the mass immunization campaign that followed changed American public health policy in profound ways. Tapping links between bioethics, education, public health, and medical research, this book raises fundamental questions about child welfare and the tension between private and public responsibility that still fuel anxieties around vaccination today.