Description: Strangling Angel : Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland, Hardcover by Dwyer, Michael, ISBN 1786940469, ISBN-13 9781786940469, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book traces the history of the anti-diphtheria campaign in Ireland and why Irish health authorities promoted active immunization and began a national program of mass childhood immunization, as well as describing the historical significance of diphtheria. It contends that Irish health authorities promoted anti-diphtheria immunization in terms of the American model and encouraged local medical officers to implement schemes of active immunization in their districts, embracing new public health methodologies. It shows how the components required to implement a childhood immunization program, including political will, public confidence, the cooperation of the medical profession, the availability of a safe and efficient prophylactic, and an administrative framework to oversee public health service delivery, were created through conflict and tragedy. It describes why Irish health authorities wanted to adopt a new and radical public health intervention and why eradication of diphtheria was their first national goal; how diphtheria became an urban disease in Britain, Europe, and America in 1880s; the development of anti-diphtheria antitoxin and its application in New York, how this was received by health authorities and medical professionals in Britain and Ireland, and how Irish health officials and medical officers ignored the reticence of their British counterparts and abandoned traditional sanitarian approaches to disease control to embrace new public health methodologies; the launching of the anti-diphtheria schemes in Ireland; the development of Burroughs Wellcome's Alum Toxoid anti-diphtheria antigen and the relationship between the British pharmaceutical company and Irish Medical officers; the Ring College immunization disaster; the impact of the Ring controversy and its implications; and municipal immunization schemes in Cork and Dublin in the wake of the Ring incident and impaired public health service provision during wartime conditions. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Strangling Angel : Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Irela
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Strangling Angel : Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland
Language: English
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Immunology, Sociology / General, Infectious Diseases, Europe / Ireland, History
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Michael Dwyer
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical, History
Item Length: 6.3 in
Series: Reappraisals in Irish History Lup Ser.
Item Width: 9.3 in
Format: Hardcover
