The Cutter incident : how America's first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis / Paul A. Offit.

  • Offit, Paul A.
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[2005], ©2005
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New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.

Contents

Little white coffins -- Back to the drawing board -- Grand experiment -- How does it feel to be a killer of children? -- Man-made polio epidemic -- What went wrong at Cutter Laboratories -- Cutter in court -- Cigars, parasites, and human toes -- Death for the lambs.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 0300108648