Dissolving illusions : disease, vaccines and the forgotten history
Humphries, Suzanne2013
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Total copies: 1
Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing to relatively minor levels by the early 1900s. The history of that transformation involves famine, poverty, filth, lost cures, eugenicist doctrine, individual freedoms versus state might, protests and arrests over vaccine refusal, and much more. But the authors shows that vaccines, antibiotics, and other medical interventions are not responsible for the increase in lifespan and the decline in mortality from infectious diseases.
Main title:
Dissolving illusions : disease, vaccines and the forgotten history / Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk.
Author:
Humphries, Suzanne, authorBystrianyk, Roman, author
Imprint:
[North Charleston, S.C.] : [CreateSpace], [2013]©2013.
Collation:
xviii, 502 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Terminology -- The not so good ol' days -- Suffer the little children -- Disease: a way of life -- Smallpox and the first vaccine -- Contaminated vaccines -- The great demonstration -- The rebel experiment -- The power of the state -- The case of Arthur Smith Jr. -- The health revolution -- The amazing decline -- The "disappearance" of polio -- Whooping cough -- Measles -- Starvation, scurvy, and Vitamin C -- Lost remedies -- Belief and fear.
ISBN:
9781480216891
Dewey class:
362.19691362.196
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
426053