Crafting immunity : working histories of clinical immunology / edited by Kenton Kroker, Jennifer Keelan and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar.

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007], ©2007.

viii, 308 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

"This book originated in a conference entitled 'immunology at the bench and bedside - contexts of clinical immunology' held at ... University of Toronto ... 2004" -- p. [ix].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making sense of vaccination c.1800 / Andrea Rusnock -- Risk, efficacy, and viral attenuation in debates over smallpox vaccination in Montreal, 1870-1875 / Jennifer Keelan -- "A private line to medicine": the clinical and laboratory contours of allergy in the early twentieth century / Mark Jackson -- Germs, vaccines, and the rise of allergy / Carla C. Keirns -- Neutralising flu: "immunological devices" and the making of a virus disease / Michael Bresalier -- Creatures of reason?: picturing viruses at the Pasteur Institute during the 1920s / Kenton Kroker -- Immunology in the clinics: reductionism, holism, or both? / Ilana Löwy -- Antitoxin and anatoxine: the League of Nations and the Institut Pasteur, 1920-1939 / Pauline M.H. Mazumdar -- Molecular surveillance: a history of radioimmunoassays / Angela N.H. Creager -- Emerging paradigm, emerging disease: molecular immunology and AIDS in the 1980s / Victoria A. Harden -- Conceptualising the maternal-foetal relationship in reproductive immunology / Moira Howes -- Canadian vaccine research, production, and international regulation: Connaught Laboratories and smallpox vaccines, 1962-1980 / Christopher J. Rutty.