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Author:

Wadman, Meredith, author.

Title:

The vaccine race : science, politics, and the human costs of defeating disease / Meredith Wadman.

Publisher:

Viking,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

MMR vaccine--History.
Human experimentation in medicine--United States--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The cells. Beginnings ; Discovery ; The Wistar reborn ; Abnormal chromosomes and abortions ; Dying cells and dogma ; The Swedish source ; Polio vaccine "Passengers" ; Trials -- Rubella. An emerging enemy ; Plague of the pregnant ; Rabies ; Orphans and ordinary people ; The devils we know ; Politics and persuasion ; The great escape ; In the bear pit ; Cell Wars ; DBS defeated ; Breakthrough -- The WI-38 wars. Slaughtered babies and Skylab ; Cell, Inc. ; Rocky passage ; The vaccine race ; Biology, Inc. ; Hayflick's limit explained ; Boot-camp bugs and Vatican entreaties ; The afterlife of a cell -- Where they are now.

ISBN:

0525427538 (hardback)
9780525427537 (hardback)

LCCN:

2016044189

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

OOAX232 -- Clinton Community College Library (Clinton)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

OPAX566 -- Southeastern Community College - Keokuk - Fred Karre Memorial Library (Keokuk)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

CVPA586 -- Letts Public Library (Letts)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

CWPB586 -- Mellinger Memorial Library (Morning Sun)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

PGAX715 -- Northwest Iowa Community College Library - Sheldon (Sheldon)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

CXPC586 -- Keck Memorial Library (Wapello)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

KQPC446 -- Winfield Public Library (Winfield)