A History of Vaccines and their Opponents
- 1st Edition - April 21, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Ian R. Tizard
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 4 3 4 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 4 3 3 - 3
The coronavirus pandemic that began in 2019 brought to the fore the presence of a significant minority of individuals who strongly oppose vaccination. This opposition is by no me… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe coronavirus pandemic that began in 2019 brought to the fore the presence of a significant minority of individuals who strongly oppose vaccination. This opposition is by no means recent. Ever since the very first attempts to immunize individuals, opposition has been intense in some societies. The reasons for this opposition range from religious to political to medical. Although vaccines have eliminated smallpox and largely eliminated polio and measles, opposition to vaccination persists and, in some countries, has grown stronger.
A History of Vaccines and Their Opponents seeks to describe the history of this opposition as well as its changing rationale over the years and in different societies. The discussion may ultimately provide some suggestions for reducing hesitancy in the future.
- Demonstrates vaccine hesitancy is not new and is widespread around the world
- Presents the history of the opposition to immunization
- Provides counterarguments to the opposition today
Medical professionals, Immunologists, Epidemiologists, Biomedical Science students, Premedical and Pre-nursing students
Interested laypersons, Medical historians
Interested laypersons, Medical historians
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1. How vaccines work
- The microbial world
- The immune system
- Innate immunity
- Adaptive immunity
- The adaptive immune response
- Chapter 2. Medical science at the beginning of the 18th century
- Hippocratic medicine
- Witchcraft
- Variolation
- Chapter 3. Variolation: the early years in Britain and Europe
- Immunity
- Lady Mary Montagu
- Inoculation progress
- Chapter 4. Variolation in New England
- Cotton Mather
- Zabdiel Boylston
- Responses
- Chapter 5. Variolation and American independence
- Boylston' legacy
- Washington's dilemma
- Major influencers
- The state of medicine
- Chapter 6. The introduction of vaccination in Britain and Europe
- Vaccination
- Subsequent studies
- Initial responses
- Vaccination in Europe
- Chapter 7. The introduction of vaccination to America
- First deliveries
- Triumph
- Chapter 8. Making vaccination compulsory in Britain and Europe
- Compulsory vaccination laws
- Ireland
- Mandates in Europe
- Typhoid vaccines
- Chapter 9. Vaccine mandates in the United States
- State-mandated vaccination
- Mandatory smallpox vaccination
- Current state mandates
- Canada
- Exceptions
- Military mandates
- Chapter 10. Anti-inoculation and anti-vaccination riots
- Anti-inoculation riots
- Anti-vaccination riots
- Some British riots
- The vaccine rebellion, Brazil, 1904
- Coronavirus vaccine protests
- Chapter 11. The Supreme Court weighs in
- Smallpox in Boston
- Jacobson v Massachusetts
- Zucht v King
- Prince v Massachusetts
- O'brien v Cunard
- Maricopa County v Harmon
- Vaccine compulsion
- Chapter 12. The rise of anti-vaccine societies in Britain
- The Anti-Vaccination League of 1853
- The Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League of 1867
- The London Society for the Abolition of compulsory Vaccination
- The National Anti-Vaccination League of 1896
- Leicester
- William Tebb
- Chapter 13. Anti-vaccination movements in the United States and Canada
- The Anti-Vaccination League of America
- The Anti-Vaccination Society of America
- The Anti-Vaccination League of America
- State anti-vaccination efforts
- Meanwhile in Canada
- The arguments
- Chapter 14. Medical liberty and vaccination
- Diverse medical theories
- Patent medicines
- Medical associations
- The Flexner Report of 1910
- Chapter 15. Developments and dead ends in immunology
- Horsepox and vaccination
- Syphilization
- Syringes and needles
- Vaccination
- Chapter 16. Antibacterial vaccines and their opponents
- Diphtheria
- Tetanus
- Pertussis
- Opposition
- Analysis
- Chapter 17. Polio vaccines and their opponents
- The disease
- Jonas Salk
- Albert Sabin
- Opposition
- The Cutter incident
- Global eradication
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Afghanistan
- The endgame
- Chapter 18. Measles, mumps, and rubella: three contentious virus diseases
- Adverse effect principles
- Measles
- Mumps
- Rubella
- Dr. Andrew Wakefield
- Conflicts of interest
- Methodological problems
- Retraction
- Autism spectrum disorder
- The response
- The consequences
- Thiomerosal
- Foreign intervention
- Chapter 19. Safety and sexual promiscuity: hepatitis B, human papilloma virus, and influenza vaccines
- Hepatitis B
- Human papilloma virus
- Initial problems
- Current problems
- Influenza vaccine hesitancy
- Chapter 20. COVID-19: politics and disinformation
- The origins of COVID-19
- COVID-19 vaccines
- Vaccination mandates
- Reasons for hesitancy
- Consequences
- Chapter 21. Religious objections to vaccination
- Early religious objections
- Christian attitudes
- Jewish attitudes
- Islamic attitudes
- Hindu attitudes
- Buddhist attitudes
- Chapter 22. Rational hesitancy: situations where hesitancy is and was appropriate
- Medical exemptions
- The swine flu scare—1976
- The smallpox scare—2002
- Glossary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 21, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 370
- No. of pages (eBook): 370
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443134340
- eBook ISBN: 9780443134333
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Ian R. Tizard
Ian R. Tizard, BVMS, BSc, PhD, DSc (Hons), DACVM, is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists and a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Immunology, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, The Texas Veterinary Medical Center at Texas A &M University (TAMU), College Station, Texas, USA. Dr. Tizard earned his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1965. He then completed a Bachelor of Science in Pathology and a PhD in Immunology. After completing his studies, Dr. Tizard became a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph, where he remained as a professor until 1982 when he moved to TAMU. Dr. Tizard wrote the first standardized textbook on Veterinary Immunology in 1977. This text, now in its 11th edition, is used worldwide, and has played a major role in establishing Immunology among the key disciplines.
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