Introduction Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. The Intellectual Origins of the Children's Vaccine Initiative 2. The Political Origins of the Children's Vaccine Initiative 3. The CVI Builds a Structure and Tries to Link the Public and Private Sectors 4. Can Quality Vaccines Be Produced in Asia? 5. A Coup against the World Health Organization is Proposed 6. The CVI Loses Its Fight to Remain Independent of WHO Appendix. The International Vaccine Institute: A CVI Spin-off Pioneers a More Aggressive Path Notes Index
William Muraskin is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is the author of The War Against Hepatitis B: A History of the International Task Force on Hepatitis B Immunization and Middle Class Blacks in a White Society: Prince Hall Freemasonry in America.
"...an important contribution to our general understanding of the high politics of international health ... professional health workers, academics and lay readers will all learn something from this study." - Social Science & Medicine "The author, in a carefully researched effort, illuminates well the anatomy of a Byzantine power struggle among otherwise well-meaning but competing international agencies and individuals who are endeavoring to develop and provide vaccines throughout the Third World. It is a remarkably even-handed effort, incorporating candid observations by many of the principal participants which are otherwise unavailable. This book could well serve as an exemplar of the difficulties surrounding what would superficially appear to be rather straightforward solutions to important international problems." - Donald A. Henderson, Johns Hopkins University Medical School "This is an excellent book. From a public health point of view, it is a very important story. Not only are the basic facts well documented, but the psychosocial side of the story is vivid, utilizing well the selected interviews. Muraskin has fulfilled the historical scholar's job, and framed it in a clear, articulate story." - Samuel W. Bloom, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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