The Cutter incident : how America's first polio vaccine led to the growing vaccine crisis / Paul A. Offit.

Author/creator Offit, Paul A.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
Descriptionxii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Little white coffins -- Back to the drawing board -- Grand experiment -- How does it feel to be a killer of children? -- Man-made polio epidemic -- What went wrong at Cutter Laboratories -- Cutter in court -- Cigars, parasites, and human toes -- Death for the lambs.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.
LCCN 2005040105
ISBN0300108648 (cloth : alk. paper)