Brown Don - A Shot In The Arm!: Big Ideas That Changed The World #3 - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Award - winning author Don Brown explores a very timely subject: the history of vaccines A Shot in the Arm! book 3 in the Big Ideas that Changed the World series is the history of vaccinations and the struggle to protect people from infectious disease. Beginning with smallpox - - perhaps humankind's greatest affliction to date - - and concluding with an overview of the Covid - 19 pandemic Brown traces the evolution of vaccines and examines deadly diseases such as measles polio anthrax rabies cholera and influenza. The book is narrated by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who historically popularized inoculation in England in the early 18th century. Brown covers the science behind how our immune systems work the discovery of bacteria and major achievements from scientists like Louis Pasteur Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Edward Jenner the "father of immunology." Brown also tackles the public and political response to vaccination throughout history addressing head - on the anti - vaccination movement and debunking false claims that vaccines cause autism. A reminder of progress made so far as well as the millions of lives still to be saved A Shot in the Arm! is a fascinating deep - dive for readers young and old. Back matter includes an author's note timeline bibliography notes and index. Big Ideas That Changed the World is a graphic novel series that celebrates the hard - won succession of ideas that ultimately changed the world. Humor drama and art unite to tell the story of events discoveries and ingenuity over time that led humans to come up with a big idea and then make it come true.
Title: A Shot In The Arm!: Big Ideas That Changed The World #3
Author(s): Brown Don
Publisher: Abrams
Barcode: 9781419750014
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 4/20/2021
Series: BIG IDEAS That Changed the World
Category: Science & Technology: General Interest (Children's / Teenage)