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Auteur:	Offit, Paul A., MD
Titel:	Cutter Incident How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
Uitgever:	Yale University Press
ISBN:	9780300126051
Land van oorsprong:	United States
Prijs:	€ 36.25
Verschijningsdatum:	28-09-2007
Bericht:	Leverbaar

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Categorie:	History of medicine
Geogr.gebied:	USA
Geillustreerd:	25 b-w illus.
Dewey code:	614.5490973

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Verschijningsvorm:	Paperback / softback
Paginas:	256
Hoogte mm.:	234
Breedte mm.:	157
Dikte mm.:	17
Gewicht gr.:	334

 

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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.