Crafting immunity : working histories of clinical immunology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kroker, Kenton, Mazumdar, Pauline M. H. (Pauline Margaret Hodgson), 1933-, Keelan, Jennifer E., 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2008]
Series:History of medicine in context.
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Table of Contents:
  • Making sense of vaccination c.1800
  • Risk, efficacy, and viral attenuation in debates over smallpox vaccination in Montreal, 1870-1875
  • "A private line to medicine" : the clinical and laboratory contours of allergy in the early twentieth century
  • Germs, vaccines, and the rise of allergy
  • Neutralizing flu : "immunological devices" and the making of a virus disease
  • Creatures of reason? : picturing viruses at the Pasteur Institute during the 1920s
  • Immunology in the clinics : reductionism, holism, or both?
  • Antitoxin and anatoxine : the League of Nations and the Institut Pasteur, 1920-1939
  • Molecular surveillance : a history of radioimmunoassays
  • Emerging paradigm, emerging disease : molecular immunology and AIDS in the 1980s
  • Conceptualizing the maternal-fetal relationship in reproductive immunology
  • Canadian vaccine research, production, and international regulation : Connaught Laboratories and smallpox vaccines, 1962-1980.