• ISBN13: 9789354795237
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health SciencesSociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: Sage Select
• Publication Date: May 13, 2022
• Pages: 308
• Original Price: 595.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 363 grams

Did you know that vaccines save 3 million lives annually?&nbsp; This potent group of weapons has notably annihilated smallpox, pushed polio to the verge of elimination and is now taking on COVID-19 as the dreaded virus keeps changing forms to survive in its fierce battle with humankind.&nbsp; &nbsp;<br /> Indians practised inoculation centuries before the West discovered vaccines in 1796. India&rsquo;s Vaccine Growth Story charts the journey of vaccines from the Jennerian era to the COVID-19 pandemic, covering multiple facets of vaccines, from the Indian and global perspective. Apart from discussing vaccine leadership, vaccine nationalism, vaccine hesitancy, eagerness and equity, as well as the latest diplomatic currency&mdash;the vaccine-maitri, the book also tracks the decade-long vaccine development cycle that was drastically cut short to a few months, taking readers through India&rsquo;s exciting and meticulously-planned sojourn of executing the world&rsquo;s largest vaccination drive.