Dr Tom Kerns
North Seattle Community College

 

Jenner On Trial

Tom Kerns

Acknowledgments

This little book would not have happened without the encouragement and support of people too numerous to mention.

With immense gratitude ...

· for encouragement and support: my father, T A Kerns, MD, and Mother, Tops Kerns, RN; friends Bill and Betty Reed, and Kate Lindemann; my colleagues in the Social Science Division at North Seattle Community College, particularly Jim Harnish, Neil Clough, and Bruce Kochis, with whom I discussed ideas that have now seen light in this book; and sisters and brothers, Janie Stanfield, Patricia Kerns, Bob Kerns, Mary K Newson, RN, Bwill Kerns, RN, MSN, Rev John Kerns, and Peter Kerns, EPD, amongst all of whom there is an inordinate amount of sibling revelry;

· For encouragement and support, as well as a close reading of an early version of the text, José Esparza, MD, PhD, and for encouragement and critical readings, Bill Heyward, MD, MPH, both of the HIV Vaccine Development Unit at the World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva;

· for financial assistance: North Seattle Community College (particularly Vice-President David Mitchell, PhD for his continuing encouragement), for a small travel grant, and for a sabbatical to complete the book;

· for opening the doors and grounds of the delightful Edward Jenner museum (in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK) to me one bright March day in 1995 when it was not normally to be opened, the assistant curator of the museum (whose privacy shall be respected; she knows who she is);

· for continuing encouragement, David FitzSimons, editor of the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Disease's HIV/AIDS Newsletter in London.

 

Jenner homepage and Table of Contents
preface | Introduction | chp 1 | chp 2 | chp 3 | chp 4
cchp 5 | chp 6 | chp 7 | chp 8 | App I | App II
Ethical Issues in HIV Vaccine Trials