Vaccination in America

Medical Science and Children’s Welfare

By:

Richard J Altenbaugh

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Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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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.

Author Biography:

Richard J. Altenbaugh is Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and former Visiting Fellow at St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK. His most recent book is The Last Children’s Plague: Poliomyelitis, Disability, and Twentieth-Century American Culture.

Release date Australia

August 16th, 2018

Author

Richard J Altenbaugh

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2018

Illustrations

VIII, 355 p.

Pages

355

Series

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

ISBN-13

9783319963488

Product ID

28224822

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