Offit, Paul A., MD

The Cutter Incident

How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. This book recounts a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, that has led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture. It offers a full account of the Cutter disaster.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9780300126051
• ISBN-10: 0300126050
• Artikelnr.: 22784094

Autorenporträt

Paul Offit, M.D., is Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a professor of pediatrics and Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.