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‘A matter of commonsense’: the Coventry poliomyelitis epidemic 1957 and the British public

In 1956, the British Ministry of Health instituted a vaccination programme against poliomyelitis, but run into myriad supply and administrative issues. When Coventry experienced an epidemic in 1957, it came to symbolise these problems. Throughout, it was claimed that the government lacked ‘common se...

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Autor principal: Millward, Gareth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Routledge 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29118656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2016.1247701