History of Vaccines: Home
Introduction
Welcome to our History of Vaccine's guide! This guide serves as an introduction to the history of vaccines while highlighting various sources. The pages that follow cover the history of the Smallpox, Polio, Measles, and Covid-19 vaccines with some additional sources.
We hope this page can serve as a starting point for anyone wishing to conduct their own research into the history of vaccines.
General Research Division, The New York Public Library. (1879-04-19). Sanitary Precautions against a Smallpox Edpidemic - An Inspector of the Board of Health Vaccinating Tramps in a Station House Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/89149e23-e0a5-0582-e040-e00a18064625
- The History of Vaccines. By the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.An education resource including articles and an interactive timeline on the history of vaccines.
- History of Medicine IndexCatScroll down to "Search IndexCat" and enter a keyword to begin searching. Advanced search options are available once a search is made.
- National Library of Medicine: History of Medicine DivisionScroll down to search the National Library of Medicine catalog by keyword or select a category of material types to begin a search.
Stanley Plotkin "History of Vaccines" In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks.
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Engraving of vaccination during smallpox scare in Jersey City, NJ
Databases
- HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowA digital repository of online books and other scholarly materials. More InfoPartial Full-Text PUBLIC
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull-text journals in the humanities & social sciences. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowThis collection contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
Books
Between Hope and Fear by
A smart and compelling examination of the science of immunity, the public policy implications of vaccine denial, and the real-world outcomes of failing to vaccinate. If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing--cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities because a select group of parents refuse to vaccinate their children. Between Hope and Fear tells the remarkable story of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their social and political implications. While detailing the history of vaccine invention, Kinch reveals the ominous reality that our victories against vaccine-preventable diseases are not permanent--and could easily be undone. In the tradition of John Barry's The Great Influenza and Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies, Between Hope and Fear relates the remarkable intersection of science, technology and disease that has helped eradicate many of the deadliest plagues known to man.
Call Number: RA638 .K56 2018ISBN: 1681777517Publication Date: 2018-07-03
The Illustrated history of medicine by
A general history of medicine with some illustrations relating to vaccines. Especially Chapter 12: FROM X-RAYS TO PENICILLIN
Call Number: WZ 17 S725h 1992ISBN: 9781872457055Publication Date: 1992
Pharmacy by
From shamans and secret potions to tomorrow's bio-technologically engineered therapies, this comprehensive pictorial history traces the story of pharmacy, the oldest of the healing arts.
Call Number: QV 711.1 C874p 1990ISBN: 0810914980Publication Date: 1990-11-01
Vaccines by
Immunization is regarded by many as one of the greatest advances in modern civilization. The widespread use of vaccines has led to increases in life expectancy, reductions in the occurrence of childhood diseases, and is generally credited with saving millions of lives annually.But since their discovery two centuries ago, vaccines have been dogged by pockets of persistent distrust among those who are skeptical of their science or who find compulsory immunization at odds with personal liberty. The rise of these voices in contemporary culture has contributed to trends ofvaccine delay and vaccine hesitancy in some communities - a chasm between the general population and the scientific establishment that has persisted and grown at times across the last several decades.VACCINES: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG offers a scientifically grounded overview of the science, manufacture, and culture of vaccines in the United States and internationally. Aiming to offer an unbiased resource on this hotly debated subject, it provides accessible, authoritative overviews of thefollowing:* How vaccines work* The history of vaccines* Vaccine policy - who writes it, and does it matter?* The contents and manufacture of vaccines* Vaccine injury* The alleged link between vaccines and autism* Vaccines and new outbreaksWritten by a leading authority in both infectious disease and vaccine education, this book offers a clear-eyed resource for parents or anyone with an interest in the use, efficacy, and controversy surrounding vaccines. In a subject area defined by partisanship, it offers reliable resource for whateveryone needs to know.
Call Number: RA638 .F44 2018ISBN: 9780190277901Publication Date: 2017-10-31
The Vaccine Controversy by
While millions of Americans receive vaccinations each year, a vocal segment of the population is opposed to all immunizations_some even refusing to get mandated vaccinations for their children. In The Vaccine Controversy, Dr. Kurt Link_a specialist in internal medicine_explores that paradox and provides a history of vaccine development, including such possible future vaccines as those being developed in the hope of immunizing against HIV. A strong supporter of vaccination programs, Link explains the immune system and how it works, as well as outlining the various types of vaccines (including the efficacy and potential toxicity of each). Appendices spell out current medical recommendations for vaccines, describe the legal issues involved in decisions to vaccinate or not, and explain the workings of clinical trials where work is done to determine if a vaccine is effective or not, or has any remarkable side effects. Millions of Americans are vaccinated each year, whether they are elders looking to avoid bouts of influenza or children whose parents want to protect them from potentially deadly childhood diseases. Still, there remains a vocal segment of the population in opposition to all immunization, some even refusing to get mandated vaccinations for their children. Here, a specialist of internal medicine explores that paradox. Dr. Link explains the immune system and how it works, as well as the history of vaccine development, and the various types of vaccines including the efficacy and potential toxicity of each. A physician for more than 35 years, Link also spotlights possible future vaccines, such as those being developed in the hope of immunizing against HIV. Appendices to this work spell out current medical recommendations for vaccines, describe the legal issues involved in decisions to vaccinate or not, and explain the workings of clinical trials where work is done to determine if a vaccine is effective or not, or has any remarkable side effects. A strong supporter of vaccination programs, Link says that all people should understand the powers, limitations and risk of immunization.
Call Number: QW 805 L756v 2005ISBN: 0275984729Publication Date: 2005-06-30- Medicine : an illustrated history by Profusely illustrated text traces the history of man's efforts to heal the sick from prehistoric times to the present.Call Number: WZ 40 L992m 1978ISBN: 9780810910546Publication Date: 1978-12-01
Vaccination : a history : from Lady Montagu and genetic engineering by Publication Date: 2011
The Politics of Vaccination A Global History by
Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times, in widely different places and under different types of political regime. Core themes in the chapters include immunisation as an element of state formation; citizens' articulation of seeing (or not seeing) their needs incorporated into public health practice; allegations that donors of development aid have too much influence on third-world health policies; and an ideological shift that regards vaccines more as profitable commodities than as essential tools of public health. Above all the essays suggest immunisation offers a novel lens through which to view changes in concepts of 'society' and 'nation' over time.
Publication Date: 2017
