Vaccinating Britain: Mass Vaccination and the Public Since the Second World War

by Gareth Millward

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 measles-mumps-rubella (MMR). It reveals that while the British public has embraced vaccination as a safe, effective and cost-efficient form of preventative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526126753
• ISBN13: 9781526126757
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.6"