Article ID: CBB001211096

The Cutter Incident and the Development of a Swedish Polio Vaccine, 1952--1957 (2012)

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Axelsson, Per (Author)


Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Volume: 32, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 311-328


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special section, “Policies, Social Responses and Associationist Movements against Poliomyelitis: The European Experience (1940--1975)”
Language: English

The creation of two different vaccines to eradicate polio stands out as one of modern science most important accomplishments. The current article examines Swedish polio vaccine research, the vaccination campaign and especially how the Cutter incident came to affect Swedish Science, scientists and society in the 1950s. Sweden is one of the few countries that came to produce its own inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in the 1950s, a type of vaccine they never abandoned. This article highlights the sometimes conflicting approaches between medical science on one hand and media and public on the other. The Swedish researchers did not agree with Jonas Salk's methods for producing a safe vaccine and had reserved attitudes when the Salk vaccine was announced, something that Swedish media disapproved of. After the Cutter incident media's representation of Swedish polio scientists became far more positive. The article also shows the development and distribution of a Swedish IPV and that contrary to some other countries Sweden did not doubt all American manufacturers and imported Salk IPV for the first polio vaccination campaign.

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Authors & Contributors
Iorio, Elena
Fantini, Bernardino
Báguena Cervellera, María José
Garofalo, Silvia
Paolo Neri
Oliva, Paolo Riccardo
Concepts
Vaccines; vaccination
Public health
Poliomyelitis
Medicine
Medicine and society
Science and society
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
Places
Italy
United States
Spain
New Zealand
Hungary
Europe
Institutions
European Association against Poliomyelitis
World Health Organization (WHO)
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