Vaccinating Britain Mass vaccination and the public since the Second World War

Vaccinating Britain shows how the British public has played a central role in the development of vaccination policy since the Second World War. It explores the relationship between the public and public health through five key vaccines - diphtheria, smallpox, poliomyelitis, whooping cough and measle...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester University Press 2019
Series:Social Histories of Medicine
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