Book Review: Vaccines: History, Science, and Issues

Vaccines and vaccination in the United States have become topics of dispute in some circles in the last two decades, since Andrew Wakefield published a high-profile and now thoroughly discredited study in Lancet linking vaccines to autism disorder. Tish Davidson’s book, Vaccines: History, Science, and Issues, takes a look at the history of vaccines and vaccinations, their mechanism of action, potential side effects, and development and use. She also documents the anti-vaccine (anti-vaxxer) movement, which began in the eighteenth century and has found renewed adherents in the present day. Davidson’s research is scientific, meticulous, and dispassionate in its coverage of both vaccine proponents and detractors.

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BOOK REVIEW: Edited by Nancy F. Cott. YOUNG OXFORD HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES and John Demos. THE TRIED AND THE TRUE: NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN CONFRONTING COLONIZATION and Jane Kamensky. THE COLONIAL MOSAIC: AMERICAN WOMEN 1600-1760 and Marylynn Salmon THE LIMITS OF INDEPENDENCE: AMERICAN WOMEN 1760-1800 and Michael Goldberg. BREAKING NEW GROUND: AMERICAN WOMEN 1800-1848 and Harriet Sigerman. AN UNFINISHED BATTLE: AMERICAN WOMEN 1848-1865 and Harriet Sigerman. LABORERS FOR LIBERTY: AMERICAN WOMEN 1865-1890 and Karen Manners Smith. NEW PATHS TO POWER: AMERICAN WOMEN 1890-1920 and Sarah Jane Deutsch. FROM BALLOTS TO BREADLINES: AMERICAN WOMEN 1920-1940 and Elaine Tyler May. PUSHING THE LIMITS: AMERICAN WOMEN 1940-1961 and William H. Chafe. THE ROAD TO EQUALITY: AMERICAN WOMEN SINCE 1962 and Harriet Sigerman. BIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT AND INDEX

NWSA Journal ◽

10.2979/nws.1999.11.2.207 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 207-210

Author(s):

April Spencer

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Native American ◽

The United States ◽

Native American Women ◽

American Women ◽

The Road ◽

History Of

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Book Review: The Shaping of American Higher Education

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1126 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Gary H. Knock

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Early History ◽

Quarter Century ◽

American Higher Education ◽

History Of ◽

Broad Understanding

In the introduction of this book, Arthur Cohen states that The Shaping of American Higher Education is less a history than a synthesis. While accurate, this depiction in no way detracts from the value of the book. This work synthesizes the first three centuries of development of high-er education in the United States. A number of books detail the early history of the American collegiate system; however, this book also pro-vides an up-to-date account of developments and context for under-standing the transformation of American higher education in the last quarter century. A broad understanding of the books subtitle, Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System, is truly realized by the reader.

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