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Previous Volume 333:1718-1719 December 21, 1995 Number 25

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By William Muraskin. 248 pp. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. $29.95. ISBN 0-8122-3267-4.

This is the story of the International Task Force on Hepatitis B Immunization and the four men who founded it and led its efforts to introduce immunization against hepatitis B to developing countries where hepatitis B virus is most endemic. As such, the book portrays only one aspect of the war against hepatitis B. It largely ignores the many important earlier battles fought and won by scientists in the laboratory or field that laid the groundwork and provided the technical infrastructure that made the efforts of the task force possible. Nonetheless, the book attempts to provide a view of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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