$29.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2025
Summary
A gripping journey through the past, present and future of vaccines.
Vaccination is arguably the greatest public health achievement in history, yet the disappearance of many diseases has also seen an increased focus on the side effects of vaccines and the rise of the anti-vax movement. The COVID-19 pandemic propelled anti-vaccination sentiment into the mainstream – including from some leaders in the medical profession – in an explosion of pseudoscience and disinformation that’s made i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761170058 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761170058 |
| Author: | Raina MacIntyre |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 137mm x 209mm |
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Raina MacIntyre
Raina MacIntyre is Professor of Global Biosecurity at UNSW and an NHMRC Research Fellow. She heads the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW. Her vaccine expertise is in older adults and immunosuppressed people, and she has conducted several clinical trials of vaccines in adults and transplant patients. She was on the Vaccine Council of 100 for the journal Vaccine from 2012–2020, and associate editor from 2020–2024. She has been on the WHO COVID-19 Vaccine Composition Technical Advisory Group (2021–2024) and the WHO SAGE smallpox and mpox Advisory Group (2022– current). She is the author of Dark Winter (NewSouth, 2022).
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