State of immunity : the politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America / James Colgrove.

Berkeley : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, [2006], ©2006.

xiii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-315) and index.

Between persuasion and compulsion : vaccination at the turn of the twentieth century -- Science in a democracy : smallpox vaccination in the progressive era and the 1920s -- Diphtheria immunization : the power, and the limits, of persuasion -- Hard cores and soft spots : selling the polio vaccine -- Eradicationism and its discontents -- Consent, compulsion, and compensation : vaccination programs in crisis -- Expansion and backlash : vaccination at the turn of the twenty-first century.