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Vaccines for Peace: A Response to Commentaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Erhard Geissler
Erhard Geissler*
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Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
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The Vaccines for Peace (VFP) proposal (Geissler, 1992) has been discussed, inter alia, by Graham Pearson and Oliver Thränert (this issue), as well as by Milton Leitenberg (1992a; 1992b) and other participants at the Biesenthal workshop (see Morse, this issue).

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Continuing Dialogue—Vaccines for Peace
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 93 - 97
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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