Picture 1 of 1
Gallery
Picture 1 of 1
Have one to sell?
Cutter Incident : How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccin...
US $45.42
Approximately£34.01
Condition:
New
A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the seller's listing for full details.
3 available
- Buy it nowCutter Incident : How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccin...
Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
Postage:
Free USPS Media MailTM.
Located in: Jessup, Maryland, United States
Delivery:
Estimated between Mon, 11 Aug and Tue, 19 Aug
Returns:
14 days return. Buyer pays for return postage. If you use an eBay delivery label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.
Payments:
Shop with confidence
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:365563458306
Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Cutter Incident : How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Gr
- ISBN
- 9780300126051
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300126050
ISBN-13
9780300126051
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60065928
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Cutter Incident : How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Infectious Diseases
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Medical
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
' The Cutter Incident is an enjoyable read, at times like a detective thriller, at others like a courtroom drama.' - Jonathan R. Carapetis, The British Medical Journal, "A comprehensive and readily comprehensible account that seamlessly moves from historical narrative through technical exposition, mystery thriller, courtroom drama, and legal review to social commentary. . . . The Cutter Incident offers a concise and thoroughly documented account (well illustrated with rare period photos) of a medical tragedy and its continuing consequences. Offit presents a powerful case for a far more enlightened approach to the development and use of lifesaving vaccines."--Olen Kew, Science, "A comprehensive and readily comprehensible account that seamlessly moves from historical narrative through technical exposition, mystery thriller, courtroom drama, and legal review to social commentary. . . . The Cutter Incident offers a concise and thoroughly documented account (well illustrated with rare period photos) of a medical tragedy and its continuing consequences. Offit presents a powerful case for a far more enlightened approach to the development and use of lifesaving vaccines."-Olen Kew, Science, "Offit . . . has written a fascinating and highly readable account of the development of the polio vaccine. He also offers a compelling plea for a strengthened law to provide relief to companies that produce vaccines so that our nation may be afforded the most cost-effective and long-lasting form of prevention against many infectious diseases--an effective vaccine."--Stanley Goldfarb, New York Post, "Dr. Offit brings us into the entangled world of medicine and law. Readers will have a better understanding of the impact that legal suits have on the vaccine industry, investment, and decisions not to pursue lifesaving vaccines because of liability issues."-Dean Mason, President and CEO, Sabine Vaccine Institute, "This is an extraordinary book. . . . What makes this book extraordinary is the author's ability to weave the well-known and less-weel-known historical events into a compelling and thought-provoking essay on the challenging vaccine issues of the day. . . . I recommend this thoughtful book to everyone."-Walter R. Dowdle, Microbe, "Offit describes the development of polio vaccine, from trials of early vaccines through to the appearance on the scene of Jonas Salk. . . . The Cutter Incident is an enjoyable read, at times like a detective thriller; at other times like a courtroom drama. . . . [The book] reminds us how close we have been and indeed still are--to losing immunisation as our most effective public health tool."--Jonathan R. Carapetis, British Medical Journal, "Dr. Offit is a gifted writer with a knack for boiling down the historic, technical, medical mystery and legal strands of his story into a clear, concise narrative with the pacing and tension more typical of a thriller than one would expect of a work of scholar. . . . The author builds a plausible case that the no-fault liability verdict has let us forget that medical advance is a matter of trial and error, and that few new life-saving medicines can ever by both totally effective and completely harmless."-- New York Law Journal, "Infectious diseases remain a primary cause of human suffering and death around the world. As Offit so clearly outlines in The Cutter Incident , solutions must be found to the predicaments that contribute to the lack of vaccines against many of these diseases."-David L. Heymann, New England Journal of Medicine, "What is causing the shortage of desperately needed vaccines to combat pneumonia, tetanus, chicken pox, measles, mumps and influenza? Why is an effective vaccine for Lyme disease no longer on the market? And what are the consequences for our children? Dr. Paul Offit confronts these vital questions in The Cutter Incident , a brilliant piece of writing about a medical tragedy, exactly fifty years ago, that revolutionized the development and testing of vaccines in the United States, while forever changing the legal culture that had once kept punitive lawsuits under control. Offit's remarkable book is certain to become a fixture in the increasingly angry battle over the impact of medical liability on the effective treatment of disease."-David M. Oshinsky, author of Polio: An American Story, "Enthralling. . . . The Cutter Incident is an absolute model of its genre. It is so tautly written that it reads like a good thriller, such that one is eager to find out what happened next. Offfit conveys the science with admirable clarity, and he presents the philosophical and legal issues simply but without simplications. It is the best kind of medical history."-Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal , Well written and easily understood, yet balanced with enough technical detail for medical professionals to read informatively cover to cover., "Enthralling. . . . The Cutter Incident is an absolute model of its genre. It is so tautly written that it reads like a good thriller, such that one is eager to find out what happened next. Offfit conveys the science with admirable clarity, and he presents the philosophical and legal issues simply but without simplications. It is the best kind of medical history."--Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal , "What is causing the shortage of desperately needed vaccines to combat pneumonia, tetanus, chicken pox, measles, mumps and influenza? Why is an effective vaccine for Lyme disease no longer on the market? And what are the consequences for our children? Dr. Paul Offit confronts these vital questions in The Cutter Incident , a brilliant piece of writing about a medical tragedy, exactly fifty years ago, that revolutionized the development and testing of vaccines in the United States, while forever changing the legal culture that had once kept punitive lawsuits under control. Offit's remarkable book is certain to become a fixture in the increasingly angry battle over the impact of medical liability on the effective treatment of disease."--David M. Oshinsky, author of Polio: An American Story, "Dr. Offit brings us into the entangled world of medicine and law. Readers will have a better understanding of the impact that legal suits have on the vaccine industry, investment, and decisions not to pursue lifesaving vaccines because of liability issues."-Dean Mason, President and CEO, Sabine Vaccine Institute , "The best account you will ever read about the interplay between big drug companies and bigger government."-Peter Huber, Forbes, "Dr. Offit brings us into the entangled world of medicine and law. Readers will have a better understanding of the impact that legal suits have on the vaccine industry, investment, and decisions not to pursue lifesaving vaccines because of liability issues."--Dean Mason, President and CEO, Sabine Vaccine Institute , "Written at a level the layperson will understand, but still engaging for readers with a health care background, the book is a quick and interesting read. . . . The book is a worthwhile read that will expand the reader's understanding of the history and context of early vaccination efforts in the United States. It skillfully recounts the story of the first polio vaccine and clearly shows how liability concerns keep pharmaceutical companies from releasing new vaccines, particularly those vaccines that are intended for children and pregnant women."--Christina Cameli, Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, "Written at a level the layperson will understand, but still engaging for readers with a health care background, the book is a quick and interesting read. . . . The book is a worthwhile read that will expand the reader's understanding of the history and context of early vaccination efforts in the United States. It skillfully recounts the story of the first polio vaccine and clearly shows how liability concerns keep pharmaceutical companies from releasing new vaccines, particularly those vaccines that are intended for children and pregnant women."-Christina Cameli, Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health, "Enthralling. . . . The Cutter Incident is an absolute model of its genre. It is so tautly written that it reads like a good thriller, such that one is eager to find out what happened next. Offfit conveys the science with admirable clarity, and he presents the philosophical and legal issues simply but without simplications. It is the best kind of medical history."-Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal, "This is an extraordinary book. . . . What makes this book extraordinary is the author's ability to weave the well-known and less-weel-known historical events into a compelling and thought-provoking essay on the challenging vaccine issues of the day. . . . I recommend this thoughtful book to everyone."--Walter R. Dowdle, Microbe, "Offit describes the development of polio vaccine, from trials of early vaccines through to the appearance on the scene of Jonas Salk. . . . The Cutter Incident is an enjoyable read, at times like a detective thriller; at other times like a courtroom drama. . . . [The book] reminds us how close we have been and indeed still are-to losing immunisation as our most effective public health tool."-Jonathan R. Carapetis, British Medical Journal, "Offit . . . has written a fascinating and highly readable account of the development of the polio vaccine. He also offers a compelling plea for a strengthened law to provide relief to companies that produce vaccines so that our nation may be afforded the most cost-effective and long-lasting form of prevention against many infectious diseases-an effective vaccine."-Stanley Goldfarb, New York Post, "Paul Offit, a physician, achieves an almost thrillerlike intensity with a fast-paced account of the many tribulations and errors that preceded the Salk vaccine's momentous triumph."-- Wilson Quarterly, "Paul Offit, a physician, achieves an almost thrillerlike intensity with a fast-paced account of the many tribulations and errors that preceded the Salk vaccine's momentous triumph."- Wilson Quarterly, "The book is very well written and reads almost like a detective story, with a nice balance between personal anecdotes and new materials not discussed in other accounts of the Cutter incident. It draws on meticulous archival documentation and on interviews with public health officers, pharmaceutical company executives, Cutter employees, and victims of the partially inactivated vaccine. . . . An important and valuable contribution."-Nadav Davidovitch, Isis, "One of the best overviews of vaccines from the vantage of events associated with vaccine safety during an earlier era that I have ever read."-Maurice Hilleman, Merck Institute for Vaccinology, "The best account you will ever read about the interplay between big drug companies and bigger government."--Peter Huber, Forbes, "The book is very well written and reads almost like a detective story, with a nice balance between personal anecdotes and new materials not discussed in other accounts of the Cutter incident. It draws on meticulous archival documentation and on interviews with public health officers, pharmaceutical company executives, Cutter employees, and victims of the partially inactivated vaccine. . . . An important and valuable contribution."--Nadav Davidovitch, Isis, "The book is very well written and reads almost like a detective story, with a nice balance between personal anecdotes and new materialsnot discussed in other accounts of the Cutter incident. It draws on meticulous archival documentation and on interviews with public health officers, pharmaceutical company executives, Cutter employees, and victims of the partially inactivated vaccine. . . . An important and valuable contribution."-Nadav Davidovitch, Isis, "This book not only brings to life the main actors involved, it also demonstrates how this incident created legal precedents that forever changed product liability laws."--Roland Sutter,World Health Organization, "Infectious diseases remain a primary cause of human suffering and death around the world. As Offit so clearly outlines in The Cutter Incident , solutions must be found to the predicaments that contribute to the lack of vaccines against many of these diseases."--David L. Heymann, New England Journal of Medicine, "Dr. Offit is a gifted writer with a knack for boiling down the historic, technical, medical mystery and legal strands of his story into a clear, concise narrative with the pacing and tension more typical of a thriller than one would expect of a work of scholar. . . . The author builds a plausible case that the no-fault liability verdict has let us forget that medical advance is a matter of trial and error, and that few new life-saving medicines can ever by both totally effective and completely harmless."- New York Law Journal, "This book not only brings to life the main actors involved, it also demonstrates how this incident created legal precedents that forever changed product liability laws."-Roland Sutter,World Health Organization, "One of the best overviews of vaccines from the vantage of events associated with vaccine safety during an earlier era that I have ever read."--Maurice Hilleman, Merck Institute for Vaccinology
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
614.5/49/0973
Synopsis
Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, thathas led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture. Drawing on interviews with public health officials, pharmaceutical company executives, attorneys, Cutter employees, and victims of the vaccine, as well as on previously unavailable archives, Dr. Paul Offit offers a full account of the Cutter disaster. He describes the nation's relief when the polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk in 1955, the production of the vaccine at industrial facilities such as the one operated by Cutter, and the tragedy that occurred when 200,000 people were inadvertently injected with live virulent polio virus: 70,000 became ill, 200 were permanently paralyzed, and 10 died. Dr. Offit also explores how, as a consequence of the tragedy, one jury's verdict set in motion events that eventually suppressed the production of vaccines already licensed and deterred the development of new vaccines that hold the promise of preventing other fatal diseases.
LC Classification Number
QR189.5.P6O44 2007
Item description from the seller
Seller business information
About this seller
Great Book Prices Store
96.8% positive Feedback•1.4M items sold
Registered as a business seller
Seller Feedback (385,556)
- c***m (417)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseAAA+++; Excellent Service; Great Pricing; Fast Delivery-Faster Than Expected to Hawaii using free shipping USPS Ground Mail, Received 06/18; Paperback book in Great Condition as Described ; TLC Packaging; Excellent Seller Communication, Sends updates . Highly Recommended!, Thank you very much!
- l***1 (1488)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat seller; book exactly as described in mint condition sold at a reasonable price; seller shipped item FAST, FREE and with tracking information, a must nowadays; seller shipped in tight, cardboard mailing envelope, which tightly fit over the book, preventing damage in shipment; good communication too; rate seller 10+++++Cuentos de La Habana Elegante, Brand New, Free shipping in the US (#364594098367)
- c***t (921)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book I bought was reasonably priced and when it arrived it was in the 'Like New' condition specified in the listing. However, when I saw that the seller had not shipped the book after more than 15 days had passed since my order I felt I must write to say that I had actually placed an order with the seller and inquire when it planned to send the book. The brusque reply was that a tracking number was available, but no number HAD been created until I pointed out that I had placed the order.Catland by Hughes, Kathryn, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US (#356798982438)
More to explore:
- Non-Fiction & Think and Grow Rich Fiction Books,
- Non-Fiction & Think and Grow Rich Paperback Fiction Books,
- Central America and Caribbean Maps and Atlases,
- Psychology & Help Non-Fiction & Think and Grow Rich Fiction Books,
- Justice League of America First Comics US Comics Copper Age (1984-1991) Era Comics, Graphic Novels & TPBs,
- Captain America Comics, Graphic Novels & TPBs,
- Justice League of America Comics, Graphic Comic Books,
- Justice League of America Comics, Graphic Novels & TPBs,
- Captain America Avengers Comics, Graphic Novels & TPBs,
- Justice League of America 2018 Publication Year Comics, Graphic Novels & TPBs
Seller Feedback (385,556)
- c***m (417)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseAAA+++; Excellent Service; Great Pricing; Fast Delivery-Faster Than Expected to Hawaii using free shipping USPS Ground Mail, Received 06/18; Paperback book in Great Condition as Described ; TLC Packaging; Excellent Seller Communication, Sends updates . Highly Recommended!, Thank you very much!
- l***1 (1488)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat seller; book exactly as described in mint condition sold at a reasonable price; seller shipped item FAST, FREE and with tracking information, a must nowadays; seller shipped in tight, cardboard mailing envelope, which tightly fit over the book, preventing damage in shipment; good communication too; rate seller 10+++++Cuentos de La Habana Elegante, Brand New, Free shipping in the US (#364594098367)
- c***t (921)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe book I bought was reasonably priced and when it arrived it was in the 'Like New' condition specified in the listing. However, when I saw that the seller had not shipped the book after more than 15 days had passed since my order I felt I must write to say that I had actually placed an order with the seller and inquire when it planned to send the book. The brusque reply was that a tracking number was available, but no number HAD been created until I pointed out that I had placed the order.Catland by Hughes, Kathryn, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US (#356798982438)