The success of the polio vaccine was a remarkable breakthrough for medical science, effectively eradicating a dreaded childhood disease. It was also the largest medical experiment to use American schoolchildren. Out now! #histmed https://t.co/LfDLD3Rv1f ht
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RT @PalgraveHistory: Richard Altenbaugh examines an uneasy issue in the history of vaccination: even as vaccines mitigate the harm that inf…
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RT @PalgraveHistory: Richard Altenbaugh examines an uneasy issue in the history of vaccination: even as vaccines mitigate the harm that inf…
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Richard Altenbaugh examines an uneasy issue in the history of vaccination: even as vaccines mitigate the harm that infectious disease causes children, the process of developing these vaccines put children at great risk as research subjects. Coming soon: ht