Meredith Wadman

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Meredith Wadman



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The Vaccine Race: Science, ...

3.96 avg rating — 1,042 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions
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“I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder. —David Maraniss, American author and journalist”
Meredith Wadman, The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

“. . . rubella does not seem to invoke the fascination of thalidomide despite the fact that in a single epidemic in the United States it caused more birth defects in one year than thalidomide did during its entire time on the world market. —William S. Webster, University of Sydney Medical School, Australia, 1998”
Meredith Wadman, The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

“Science appears calm and triumphant when it is completed; but science in the process of being done is only contradiction and torment, hope and disappointment." - Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French bacteriologist and developer of the first effective treatment for diphtheria”
Meredith Wadman, The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease

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