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Author Offit, Paul A.

Title The Cutter incident : how America's first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis / Paul A. Offit.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  614.5 OFF    Check Shelf
Description xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227) and index.
Contents Little white coffins -- Back to the drawing board -- Grand experiment -- How does it feel to be a killer of children? -- Man-made polio epidemic -- What went wrong at Cutter Laboratories -- Cutter in court -- Cigars, parasites, and human toes -- Death for the lambs.
Subject Poliomyelitis vaccine -- History.
Poliomyelitis -- Vaccination -- United States -- History.
Cutter Laboratories.
Vaccines -- United States.
Cutter Laboratories.
Poliovirus Vaccines -- history -- United States -- Popular Works.
Disease Outbreaks -- history -- United States -- Popular Works.
Drug Industry -- history -- United States -- Popular Works.
History, 20th Century -- United States -- Popular Works.
Mass Vaccination -- history -- United States -- Popular Works.
Poliomyelitis -- history -- United States -- Popular Works.
ISBN 0300108648 cloth alkaline paper
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