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Long Shot : Vaccines for National Defense.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674063150
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Long ShotDDC classification:
  • 614.47
LOC classification:
  • RA638
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Disease, Security, and Vaccines -- Chapter 2. Historical Patterns of Vaccine Innovation -- Chapter 3. Vaccine Development during World War II -- Chapter 4. Wartime Legacies -- Chapter 5. The End of an Era -- Chapter 6. Biodefense in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 7. The Search for Sustainable Solutions -- Appendix 1. Vaccine License Data, 1903-1999 -- Appendix 2. Developmental History of Vaccines Licensed in the United States, 1903-1999 -- Appendix 3. Military Contributions to Licenses Representing Innovative Activity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Despite large-scale government demand for new vaccines in the past decade, few have materialized. Vaccine innovation has been falling since World War II. Hoyt's timely investigation asks why, and teaches lessons for our efforts to rebuild biodefense capabilities when the financial payback for a vaccine is low but the social returns are high.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Disease, Security, and Vaccines -- Chapter 2. Historical Patterns of Vaccine Innovation -- Chapter 3. Vaccine Development during World War II -- Chapter 4. Wartime Legacies -- Chapter 5. The End of an Era -- Chapter 6. Biodefense in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 7. The Search for Sustainable Solutions -- Appendix 1. Vaccine License Data, 1903-1999 -- Appendix 2. Developmental History of Vaccines Licensed in the United States, 1903-1999 -- Appendix 3. Military Contributions to Licenses Representing Innovative Activity -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Despite large-scale government demand for new vaccines in the past decade, few have materialized. Vaccine innovation has been falling since World War II. Hoyt's timely investigation asks why, and teaches lessons for our efforts to rebuild biodefense capabilities when the financial payback for a vaccine is low but the social returns are high.

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