Stephen E. Mawdsley. Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin

Autor:	Robin Wolfe Scheffler
Přispěvatelé:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	History Political science medicine Gamma globulin Geriatrics and Gerontology medicine.disease Poliomyelitis Management
Zdroj:	Prof. Scheffler via Ece Turnator
ISSN:	1468-4373 0022-5045
DOI:	10.1093/jhmas/jry004
Popis:	The history of polio is deeply interwoven with the history of biomedicine in the twentieth century, from establishing the threatened child as a figure of medical philanthropy to underwriting the expansion of early molecular biology to defining the needs of clinical trials and inspiring debates over the nature of rehabilitation and disability. Numerous books have chronicled this influence, but more often than not they have emphasized the emergence of vaccination as the critical moment in the polio story. However, why were so many thousands of parents willing to submit their children to the first tests of the Salk vaccine?
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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