An overview of vaccinations, explaining some basic terms, their development, with an emphasis on smallpox and polio vaccines, their current and future use, controversies concerning their use, and possible negative effects.
Text and photographs look at vaccines, focusing on the history, the science behind the medical practices and the individuals responsible for major breakthroughs.
Latina novelist Alma Huebner begs off joining her husband on a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic to work on her next book, and finds herself becoming obsessed with the life of her subject--a woman who hand-picked a group of orphan boys to serve as live carriers of the small pox virus in order to provide Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis a ready supply of vaccine with which to inoculate the populations of Spain's American colonies in 1803.
Contains twelve essays that describe issues in vaccination, including their effectiveness, contamination, decisions by parents about vaccinating their children, and development of new vaccines.
A collection of twenty controversial essays that debate the use of vaccines, including the effectiveness in disease prevention, whether the benefits outweigh the possible harms, if they should be mandatory, and worldwide development.
Teaches children about vaccines, explaining how they are created, why they are so important, how they are administered, and how they protect people from deadly diseases.
