State of immunity : the politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Colgrove, James Keith
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : New York : University of California Press ; Milbank Memorial Fund, [2006].
Series:	California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 16.
Subjects:	Health attitudes. Medical policy > United States > History > 20th century. Vaccination > United States > History > 20th century. Vaccination > history. Attitude to Health. Health Policy > history. History, 20th Century. United States.

Table of Contents:

Between persuasion and compulsion : vaccination at the turn of the twentieth century
Science in a democracy : smallpox vaccination in the progressive era and the 1920s
Diphtheria immunization : the power, and the limits, of persuasion
Hard cores and soft spots : selling the polio vaccine
Eradicationism and its discontents
Consent, compulsion, and compensation : vaccination programs in crisis
Expansion and backlash : vaccination at the turn of the twenty-first century.