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About this book
'This book tells the story of how vaccines transformed the public health landscape and suggests what we might do to restore public trust in their e?cacy and safety.' Professor Trish Greenhalgh OBE, University of Oxford
Vaccine Nation, from world-leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre, examines the history of vaccines, how vaccines work, vaccine safety, public policy, new technologies like mRNA and the effects of the COVID pandemic on the anti-vaccination movement. At the same time as vaccination rates are falling globally, miraculous new developments in vaccines means we have new tools to fight cancer and other chronic diseases. At a critical time when the threat of an influenza pandemic is looming and disinformation is booming, MacIntyre argues that science must reclaim the stage, or we may lose centuries of gains that vaccines have brought to the world.
Vaccine Nation, from world-leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre, examines the history of vaccines, how vaccines work, vaccine safety, public policy, new technologies like mRNA and the effects of the COVID pandemic on the anti-vaccination movement. At the same time as vaccination rates are falling globally, miraculous new developments in vaccines means we have new tools to fight cancer and other chronic diseases. At a critical time when the threat of an influenza pandemic is looming and disinformation is booming, MacIntyre argues that science must reclaim the stage, or we may lose centuries of gains that vaccines have brought to the world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- 1 The miracle of vaccines
- 2 How do vaccines work?
- 3 Vaccine safety
- 4 Anti-vaccination – from fringe to the medical mainstream
- 5 ‘I don’t want mRNA in my body!’
- 6 Influenza
- 7 Fur, feathers and farms – the spectre of H5N1
- 8 A pox on your houses
- 9 Herd immunity
- 10 Measles, measles everywhere
- 11 Coercion or persuasion to increase vaccination rates?
- 12 The dark underbelly of medicine and global health
- 13 Pneumonia is not the old man’s friend
- 14 If there was a vaccine against heart attacks, would you take it?
- 15 COVID killed public health
- 16 Who will reclaim the stage?
- References