A Pox on Fools: A History of Vaccine Skepticism and Its Lethal Ideology
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An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, tracing how three common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology from the eighteenth century smallpox inoculation to the present day. Written by leading science writer Thomas Levenson, the book examines the historical roots of anti-vaccine sentiment and its deadly consequences.
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Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced t
An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology
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