The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
- Synopsis
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Offit, the chief of the division of infectious diseases and professor of immunologic and infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and professor of pediatrics at the U. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, brings his expertise to this fascinating and deeply troubling account, which describes the 1955 tragedy when Cutter Laboratories produced a tainted polio vaccine containing the live virus that was subsequently used for innoculations, with lethal results. Offit then relates the court case against Cutter, the precedent the verdict set in the pharmaceutical industry, and the impact it has had on vaccine production in the U. S. since. The account is based on primary documents and interviews with scientists, public officials, victims, and others. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780300130379
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 12/19/11
- Copyrighted By:
- Paul A. Offit, M.D.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
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English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
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History,
Nonfiction
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