Defeating the Ministers of Death
the compelling story of vaccination, one of medicine's greatest triumphs
$31.99
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2019
Summary
The compelling story of vaccination.
We may fear terrorist attacks, but in truth humans have always had far more to fear from infections. In 1919, Spanish flu killed over 50 million people, more than died in both world wars combined. In 1950, an estimated 50 million people caught smallpox worldwide, of whom 10 million died. In 1980, before measles vaccine was widely used, an estimated 2.6 million children died of measles every year. Today we are hostage to a new pande…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781460756843 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1460756843 |
| Author: | David Isaacs |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 464g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 27mm |
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About The Author
David Isaacs
Professor David Isaacs is a consultant paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, and Clinical Professor in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Sydney. He has been a member of every Australian national immunisation advisory committee for the last 25 years. He is passionate about bioethics, and has published and taught extensively on ethical aspects of immunisation. He is also one of several doctors who have exposed what they say is a culture of violence, abuse, self-harm and cover-up on Nauru, in defiance of laws that could land them in prison.
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