History of Vaccine Development
The history of vaccines now goes back over 300 years to the work of Jenner but the last 50 years have seen an enormous acceleration of the pace of vaccine development and, accordingly, the impact on infectious diseases. However, no vaccine developme
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Stanley A. Plotkin Editor
History of Vaccine Development
Editor Dr. Stanley A. Plotkin Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-1338-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-1339-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1339-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011928252 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
The photograph was taken at a meeting organized by the Pan American Health Organization in 1965 on the subject of vaccination. Among the vaccine experts seen on this photo are Hilary Koprowski (1), Sven Gard (2), Hunein Maasab (6), Geoffrey Edsall (7), Gene Buynak (20), Pierre Lepine (30), John Beale (34), Anton Schwarz (44), Howard Tint (45), Frank Perkins (46), Sam Katz (47), Harry Meyer (49), Ed Buescher (56), Robert Weibel (61), Maurice Hilleman (62), John Fox (70), Paul Parkman (73), Joseph Stokes, Jr. (79), Victor Cabasso (80), Anatol Smorodintsev (83), Saul Krugman (85), Joseph Melnick (to the right of 95), John Enders (96), Henry Kempe (103), Thomas Weller (under 118), Drago Ikic (119), Alastair Dudgeon (121), Leonard Hayflick (to the right of 124) and Werner Henle (134). The editor of this book is number 31.
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Contents
1 Introduction.............................................................................................. Stanley A. Plotkin 2 “Variolation” and Vaccination in Late Imperial China, Ca 1570–1911............................................................................................ Angela Ki Che Leung
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3 Edward Jenner’s Role in the Introduction of Smallpox Vaccine......... Derrick Baxby
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4 Edward Jenner, Benefactor to Mankind................................................ Ian Bailey
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5 Smallpox Eradication: The Vindication of Jenner’s Prophesy.........
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