This comprehensive work includes 63 chapters which cover a wide range of topics--from the history of vaccination, immunization practices, and specific vaccines to vaccine manufacturing and the vaccine industry, vaccines of the future, and public health and regulatory issues. The chapters on widely-used vaccines (17) and vaccines for special circumstances (10) cite impressive numbers of articles and studies--4 or 500 in some cases. Other topics include technologies for making new vaccines; immunization in Europe and the US; vaccination programs in developing countries; economic analyses of vaccine policies; multiple vaccines and the immune system; and vaccination in the immunocompromised host. The third edition (1999) is cited in . Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR