Strangling Angel - Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland

Informationen zum Autor Michael Dwyer is Lecturer in the School of History at University College Cork. Klappentext The first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of a national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. Dwyer charts how this national goal was marked by conflict and tragedy and placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of a national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. Dwyer charts how this national goal was marked by conflict and tragedy and placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Dwyer, Michael (School of History Dwyer
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781786940469
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-046-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Reappraisals in Irish History; Reappraisals in Irish History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General