| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America. By James Colgrove. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiv, 332 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-520-24749-3.)

James Colgrove's book is a compelling history of the people, events, and controversies that produced both vaccines and vaccination policies in the United States during the twentieth century. The author's prodigiously researched and clearly structured narrative illuminates the complex interplay among several different stories: the constantly evolving science of immunization; heated divisions among various medical sects concerning the safety and efficacy of vaccination procurement and procedures; tensions between the economic interests of physicians in private practice and the social welfare aims of public health practitioners; waxing and waning public support for large-scale vaccination programs—particularly those aimed at school children; and the shifting boundaries of the state's power to mandate that individuals undergo immunization.

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