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An enlightening glimpse into the complex interface between public health and private industry, chronicling the ability of a singularly tenacious person to save more lives than perhaps any other scientist in history. -- New England Journal of Medicine Medical writing at its finest. -- David Oshinsky, author of Bellevue Offit gives the reader a window into the key scientific advances that have led to the modern age of vaccines...[It] is a compelling story...Offit brings interesting perspective to the characters of the time. -- Journal of the American Medical Association This extraordinarily fine, well-researched, and beautifully written book deserves the widest possible readership. More physicians should write this well. -- Choice Magazine

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Paul A. Offit is an author and a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine that has been credited with saving hundreds of lives every day. He is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's advisory committee on immunization.

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