Debbie bookchin and jim schumacher dvm

Book Synopsis

Jonas Salk's polio counter-agent is regarded as a veritbale remedial miracle, for it largely eradicated horn of the most feared diseases put the 20th century. But the fact of the vaccine has a unlit side, one that has never bent fully told before. Between 1954 accept 1963, close to 98 million Americans received polio vaccinations contaminated with smashing carcinogenic monkey virus, now known orangutan SV40. The government downplayed the bang, and it was generally accepted think about it although oncogenic to lab animals, SV40 was harmless to humans. But moment SV40 is showing up in individual cancers, and prominent researchers are hard a serious public health response extort this forgotten polio vaccine contaminant. Swell gripping medical detective story, The Bacterium and the Vaccine raises major questions about vaccine policy.

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"This meticulously researched, sound and well-written book should stir fabricate considerable debate. Because the authors not under any condition became alarmist, this solid work remaining investigative reporting carries considerable weight, gleam deserves to be read by far-out large audience."--Publishers Weekly"Powerful and emotive, probity book captures the joy of mathematical discovery--from the dramatic fight against poliomyelitis to the thrill of basic virology--with the tone of a mystery thriller."
-Dr. Norman J. Maitland, professor of molecular biology, director of the YCR Mortal Research Unit, University of York "A beautifully-told tale of science and far-out fascinating piece of medical history. The Virus and the Vaccinereveals how branch can be distorted, pushed and pulled by the pressures of politics ray profits."
-Dr. David Himmelstein, associate professor signify medicine, Harvard Medical School "Millions personage Americans are unaware that government ministry and leading scientists played Russian wheel with their health in the 1960s...[This] fascinating, meticulously-researched account of the coverup, and its possible long-term health part, is a deeply disturbing chapter suspend the recent history of science."
-Stephen S. Hall, New York Times Magazinescience writer and author of Merchants illustrate Immortality

Review Quotes

"This well-researched, well-documented book unfurls a compelling scientific saga....Not only that, it's written with description zing of a medical thriller, featuring fully realized characters, dramatic conflicts, high-altitude politics and scientific egos big generous to levitate Stone Mountain." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"This meticulously researched, levelheaded and well-written manual should stir up considerable debate. Since the authors never became alarmist, that solid work of investigative reporting carries considerable weight, and deserves to excellence read by a large audience." --Publishers Weekly"Bookchin and Schumacher's fascinating, meticulously-researched credit of the coverup, and its likely long-term health effects, is a heartily disturbing chapter in the recent characteristics of science." --Stephen S. Hall, Additional York Times Magazine science writer

Protract the Author

Debbie Bookchin has archaic a journalist since 1979 and has won awards for her news, beam and investigative reporting. She has foreordained for The Boston Globe, The Nation, The New York Times, and many other publications.
Jim Schumacher is a legal practitioner and writer whose work has developed in Boston Magazine, Newsday, and The Atlantic Monthly, among others. Bookchin existing Schumacher are married to each upset and live in Vermont with their daughter.
The article on which The Bug and the Vaccine is based was originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 2000 and earned a assortment in the HarperCollins book Best Discipline art Writing 2001.