This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, that has led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture. Drawing on interviews with public health officials, pharmaceutical company executives, attorneys, Cutter employees and victims of the vaccine, as well as on previously unavailabl...(展开全部)

Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, that has led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccin...(展开全部)

The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubella and other devastating diseases. Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant. There was no vaccine and little understanding of how the ...(展开全部)

The epic and controversial story of a major breakthrough in cell biology that led to the conquest of rubella and other devastating diseases. Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant. There was no vaccine and little understanding of how the ...(展开全部)

阿瑟·艾伦（ArthurAllen），美国较为知名的记者、撰稿人，数十年来笔耕不辍，大量作品散见于《新共和》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报杂志》《沙龙》等报刊。他创作的《疫苗：医学史上最伟大的救星及其争议》一书于年首版后，之后先后受到美国《出版商周刊》《自然》等诸多媒体推荐。此书于年再版，至今常销不断。

In 1796, as smallpox ravaged Europe, Edward Jenner injected a child with a benign version of the disease, then exposed the child to the deadly virus itself. The boy proved resistant to smallpox and Jenner's risky experiment produced the earliest vaccination. This deftly written account reveals a history of vaccination that is both illuminated with hope and shrouded by controver...(展开全部)

阿瑟·艾伦（ArthurAllen），美国较为知名的记者、撰稿人，数十年来笔耕不辍，大量作品散见于《新共和》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报杂志》《沙龙》等报刊。他创作的《疫苗：医学史上最伟大的救星及其争议》一书于年首版后，之后先后受到美国《出版商周刊》《自然》等诸多媒体推荐。此书于年再版，至今常销不断。

In 1796, as smallpox ravaged Europe, Edward Jenner injected a child with a benign version of the disease, then exposed the child to the deadly virus itself. The boy proved resistant to smallpox and Jenner's risky experiment produced the earliest vaccination. This deftly written account reveals a history of vaccination that is both illuminated with hope and shrouded by controver...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 《科学》期刊记者，《自然》期刊和《财富》杂志供稿作家，并为《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等撰写生物学和生物医学专栏。在华盛顿负责生物医学报道近二十年。瓦德曼毕业于斯坦福大学人类生物学专业；于英属哥伦比亚大学医学院学习医学，并以罗兹奖学金从牛津大学国王学院获得医学学位；还拥有哥伦比亚大学新闻学院硕士学位。

Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been exposed to rubella, popularly known as German measles, while pregnant; there was no vaccine and little understanding of how the disease devastated fetuses. In June 1962, a young biologist in Philadelphia, using tissue extracted from an aborted fetus from Swede...(展开全部)