Vaccinating Britain - Mass Vaccination and the Public Since the Second World War

Vaccinating Britain explores the complicated relationship between the British public and vaccination since the Second World War through British public health policy. It shows how the British public came to embrace vaccination but also made demands on the government to make vaccination more acceptable.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: The development and evolution of the vaccination programme
1 Diphtheria
2 Smallpox
3 Poliomyelitis
Part II: Vaccination crises
4 Pertussis
5 MMR
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Gareth Millward is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick

Summary

Vaccinating Britain explores the complicated relationship between the British public and vaccination since the Second World War through British public health policy. It shows how the British public came to embrace vaccination but also made demands on the government to make vaccination more acceptable. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Gareth Millward
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781526126757
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2675-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine; Social Histories of Medicine M; Social Histories of Medicine; Social Histories of Medicine M
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics