Brain Fever: How Vaccines Prevent Meningitis and Other Killer Diseases - Rilegato

Moxon, Richard

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ISBN 10: 1786349876 ISBN 13: 9781786349873

Casa editrice: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2021

Riassunto

In Brain Fever, the internationally renowned medical scientist, Richard Moxon FRS, shares his experiences of bacterial meningitis, a fearful and devastating infection of the brain. In a clear, non-technical style, he explains what meningitis is, what causes it, who gets it and how research has come up with vaccines that can prevent it. A pediatrician, Moxon engages the reader in a compelling story of how chance, opportunity and passion drew him into researching the bacteria that are the lethal assassins of unsuspecting, previously healthy people, especially young children. The reader is taken on an exciting journey from his boyhood dream to study medicine to adventurous experiences as a junior doctor in London, a ship's surgeon and then a trainee in infectious diseases in Boston, USA. There he became hooked on a research career and in the subsequent four decades, first as a professor at Johns Hopkins and then at Oxford University, Moxon traces his personal involvement with an extraordinary and inspiring group of scientists who pioneered a milestone in medical history: the development of vaccines to prevent bacterial meningitis. In this must-read book, Brain Fever provides expert insight into what it takes to develop a vaccine. Moxon takes the reader from basic research through clinical trials to the logistics and politics of implementing a vaccine. As we are learning from the Covid-19 pandemic, it is vaccines that we rely on to fight and overcome the devastation caused by virulent pathogens. His message is clear and challenging: no other intervention in the history of medicine confers a greater public health benefit than immunisation.

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<p><strong>Richard Moxon</strong> FRS, is an Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics and a Professorial Fellow of Jesus College at the University of Oxford. His paediatric and research training was in the UK (1966–1969) and the USA (1970–1974). He was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Paediatrics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1974–1984), becoming the Eudowood Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 1981 before he was elected as Action Research Professor and Chairman of Paediatrics at Oxford University (1984–2008) and Head of the Molecular Infectious Diseases Group in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (1988–2008). He is a Fellow of the UK Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007. His major research interests have been on the pathogenesis and prevention of sepsis and meningitis caused by the bacteria <em>Haemophilus influenzae and Neisseria meningitidis</em>. Moxon is the founder and first director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and the Director of the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology, named the Moxon Building in 2014. He has published 5 books and more than 400 peer-reviewed original scientific articles.</p>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1786349876
• ISBN 13: 9781786349873
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 264
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