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(California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public. 16.) By James Colgrove. 332 pp., illustrated. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2006. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-520-24749-9.

In the United States, the number of diseases that are preventable by vaccines is at a historic high, and the morbidity and mortality from childhood diseases that can be prevented with vaccines remain at record lows. State of Immunity provides an intriguing and entertaining look at how childhood vaccination programs in the United States gradually became mainstream and at how the various social and political forces that drove this achievement at times threatened to derail it.

Spanning the past century, the book proceeds chronologically, from the early smallpox vaccine campaigns to the modern antivaccine movement, focusing on the interplay between . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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