Vaccine innovators Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering
Publication Information
Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, [2017]
Physical Description
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Series
Summary
Have you gotten a shot at the doctor's office recently? In the 1920s, about six thousand children a year were dying of pertussis, or whooping cough. Grace Eldering and Pearl Kendrick began to study of the disease, and their research eventually led to a reliable vaccine. Learn how their combined efforts helped to treat and eventually prevent a deadly disease that mostly affected children, as well as providing a model for how to approach public health concerns.
Contents
- Women in science
- Dangerous disease
- The work begins
- Developing the vaccine
- Saving lives.
Subjects
- Women bacteriologists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Bacteriologists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Pertussis vaccines > History > Juvenile literature.
- Whooping cough > History > Juvenile literature.
- Discoveries in science > Juvenile literature.
- Kendrick, Pearl, 1890-1980 > Juvenile literature.
- Eldering, Grace, 1900-1988 > Juvenile literature.