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Resources for providers, as well as helpful and informative books for patients |
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The End of Polio?
By Tim Brookes and Omar A. Khan, M.D., M.H.S. (APHA Press, 2006: 206
pages) The authors give an on-the-ground look inside the worldwide effort
to eradicate polio in countries from Pakistan to Nigeria. To order, visit
APHA's Web site: www.aphabookstore.org |
Flu: The Story of the Great
Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused
It
By Gina Kolata (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001: 256 pages). To
purchase, visit your local bookstore. |
The History of Vaccines
By Karie Youngdahl, Babi Hammond, and Michelle Sipics (College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 2013, 52 pages). Written by the people behind the award-winning
HistoryofVaccines.org website, this book covers the birth of vaccination in the late 1700s and traces the influences of the
bacteriological revolution of the late 1800s into the rapidly expanding field of vaccinology.
The book is colorful and visually engaging, with more than 40
illustrations, photographs, and charts. Most of the images are taken
from the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of
Philadelphia. To purchase,
order online. If you are interested in purchasing more than 10 copies of the book
for a pediatric practice or other use, please contact Karie Youngdahl, the project director, at
kyoungdahl@collegeofphysicians.org. A timeline poster (20" by
18") of vaccine history is also available. |
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science and Fear
In The Panic Virus (Simon & Schuster, 2011: 429 pages), journalist Seth Mnookin
draws on interviews with parents, public-health advocates, scientists, and
anti-vaccine activists to tackle a fundamental question: How do we decide
what the truth is? The book is a riveting and sometimes heart-breaking
medical detective story that explores the limits of rational thought. It
is the ultimate cautionary tale for our time. |
Polio:
An American Story
By David M. Oshinsky, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History
(Oxford University Press, 2006: 368 pages) To purchase, visit your local
bookstore, or order
online. |
Vaccine-Preventable Disease: The Forgotten Story
By Rachel M. Cunningham, MPH; Julie A. Boom, MD; and Carol J. Baker, MD
Written by experts from the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine
Awareness and Research (CVAR) in response to increased media attention on
vaccines, this book profiles families devastated by vaccine-preventable
disease. The book seeks to educate families about the importance of
protecting children through vaccines and to dispel the myth that
vaccine-preventable diseases are merely relics of the past. To purchase
($3.00), order online. |
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