Vaccines: A Biography

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Artenstein, Andrew W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Immunology.; Medical virology.; Emerging infectious diseases.; Medicine.; Microbiology.; Life Sciences.; Infectious Diseases.; History of Medicine.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.; Virology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1108-7

Recounting the social, cultural, and scientific history of vaccines, Vaccines: A Biography traces the lineagethe biographyof individual vaccines, originating with deeply rooted medical problems, following ideas as they are conceived and developed, leading eventually to practical, preventive solu...

Table of Contents:

• Vaccinology in Context: The Historical Burden of Infectious Diseases
• Smallpox
• A Brief History of Microbiology and Immunology
• Anthrax
• Rabies
• Killed Vaccines: Cholera, Typhoid and Plague
• Toxoid Vaccines
• Tuberculosis and BCG
• The Discovery of Viruses and the Evolution of Vaccinology
• Yellow Fever
• Influenza
• Polio
• Measles, Mumps and Rubella
• Diseases of Military Importance
• Varicella and Zoster
• Polysaccharide Vaccines
• Hepatitis B
• Japanese Encephalitis
• Hepatitis A
• Rotavirus
• Human Papillomaviruses
• The Future of Vaccine Discovery and Development.