Article ID: CBB000042366

Cotton Mather, the “Angelical Ministry”, and inoculation (1991)

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Description Discusses the religious, political and social aspects of Cotton Mather's insistence on use of inoculation at the outbreak of smallpox in Boston in the 1720s.


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Authors & Contributors
Rota, Emanuel
Stephen Coss
Heather H. Vacek
Whitman, Julie
Warner, Margaret Humphreys
Van de Wetering, Maxine
Journals
William and Mary Quarterly
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Transactions of the International Congress on the Enlightenment
Social Science History
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
New England Quarterly
Publishers
Simon and Schuster
Baylor University Press
Arno
Angeli
Indiana University
Concepts
Immunology
Science and religion
Science and politics
Medicine
Metaphors; analogies
Smallpox
People
Mather, Cotton
Franklin, James (1697-1735)
Adams, Samuel (1722-1803)
Boisen, Anton Theophilus
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de
Suard, Jean Baptiste Antoine
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
20th century
17th century
Places
France
Italy
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
Americas
British Isles
New York (U.S.)
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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