The Vaccine Narrative

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© 2008 vanderbilt University Press all rights reserved First edition 2008 12 11 10 09 08 1 2 3 4 5 This book is printed on acid-free paper made from 50% post-consumer recycled content. Manufactured in the United states of america Designed by Cheryl Carrington Frontispiece: Randy Kerr receives the first polio vaccination in field trial, Mclean, va, april 26, 1954. Courtesy of March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data heller, Jacob, Ph.D. The vaccine narrative / Jacob heller. — 1st ed. p. ; cm. includes bibliographical references and index. isBN 978-0-8265-1590-2 (cloth : alk. paper) isBN 978-0-8265-1591-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. vaccines—history. 2. vaccines—social aspects. 3. vaccines—historiography. i. Title. [DNlM: 1. vaccines—history—United states. 2. Communicable Disease Control—history—United states. 3. history, 20th Century—United states. 4. sociology, Medical—United states. 5. vaccination—history—United states. QW 11 aa1 h477v 2008] Ra638.h45 2008 615'.372—dc22 2007022442 ...