The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease by Meredith Wadman

The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

Meredith Wadman

436 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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...

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