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UNINA9910457886803321 |
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Autore |
Hoyt Kendall <1971-> |
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Long shot [[electronic resource] ] : vaccines for national defense / / Kendall Hoyt |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012 |
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1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Vaccination - United States |
Vaccines - Government policy - United States |
Biological weapons - Safety measures - Government policy - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Disease, security, and vaccines -- Historical patterns of vaccine innovation -- Vaccine development during World War II -- Wartime legacies -- The end of an era -- Biodefense in the 21st century -- The search for sustainable solutions. |
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At the turn of the twenty-first century, the United States contended with a state-run biological warfare program, bioterrorism, and a pandemic. Together, these threats spurred large-scale government demand for new vaccines, but few have materialized. A new anthrax vaccine has been a priority since the first Gulf War, but twenty years and a billion dollars later, the United States still does not have one. This failure is startling.Historically, the United States has excelled at responding to national health emergencies. World War II era programs developed ten new or improved vaccines, often in time to meet the objectives of particular military missions. Probing the history of vaccine development for factors that foster timely innovation, Kendall Hoyt discovered that vaccine innovation has been falling, not rising, since World War II. This finding is at odds with prevailing theories of market-based innovation and suggests that a collection of nonmarket factors drove mid-century innovation. Ironically, many late-twentieth-century developments that have been celebrated as a boon for innovation-the |
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birth of a biotechnology industry and the rise of specialization and outsourcing-undercut the collaborative networks and research practices that drove successful vaccine projects in the past.Hoyt's timely investigation teaches important lessons for our efforts to rebuild twenty-first-century biodefense capabilities, especially when the financial payback for a particular vaccine is low, but the social returns are high. |
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UNINA9910150519503321 |
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Autore |
Nicholson Michael <1937-2016, > |
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Dark Rosaleen : a famine novel / / Michael Nicholson |
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Dublin, Ireland : , : The History Press Ireland, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (180 pages) |
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Man-woman relationships |
Famines |
Government, Resistance to |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Intro -- Title -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Historical Notes -- About the Author -- Copyright. |
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Love, death, and politics in a time of great famine and hardship in Ireland This is a novel based on the true story of the Great Famine in Ireland of 1840s. Historically accurate, it is a story of murder and betrayal, of a failed rebellion, and the love of a national scandal. |
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Charles Trevelyan was Secretary of the Treasury, and Director of the Famine Relief Programme at a time when famine raged and antipathy in English politics towards the plight of those affected raged equally. Kathryn, Charles' daughter, likewise felt no sympathy until the very scale of the tragedy became apparent. Joining the underground, she preached insurrection, stole food for the starving, and became the lover of the leader of the rebellion. She became known as Dark Rosaleen, the heroine of banned nationalist poem, was branded as both traitor and cause celebrE. This is her story. |
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