Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History
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Subject: Medical / Nursing
Author: Humphries, Suzanne
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Date Published: 07-2013
ISBN: 1480216895 | EAN: 9781480216891
BasicBinding: Paperback
Features: Bibliography, Index | Pages: 534
Annotation: Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing to relatively minor levels by the early 1900s. The history of that transformation involves famine, poverty, filth, lost cures, eugenicist doctrine, individual freedoms versus state might, protests and arrests over vaccine refusal, and much more. But the authors shows that vaccines, antibiotics, and other medical interventions are not responsible for the increase in lifespan and the decline in mortality from infectious diseases.
Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing to relatively minor levels by the early 1900s. The history of that transformation involves famine, poverty, filth, lost cures, eugenicist doctrine, individual freedoms versus state might, protests and arrests over vaccine refusal, and much more. But the authors shows that vaccines, antibiotics, and other medical interventions are not responsible for the increase in lifespan and the decline in mortality from infectious diseases.
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