The Cutter Incident - How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Autori: Paul A. Offit, OFFIT PAUL A, Offit Paul A.
• Editore: Yale University Press Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.09.2007
• EAN: 9780300126051
• ISBN: 978-0-300-12605-1
• Pagine: 256
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 235 mm x 10 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Singoli rami economici, branche; USA, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, History of Medicine, United States of America, USA, Public health & preventive medicine, Manufacturing industries, Public health and preventive medicine, Pharmaceutical industries