Article ID: CBB000932118

Introduction: Simultaneously Global and Local: Reassessing Smallpox Vaccination and Its Spread, 1789--1900 (2009)

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Bhattacharya, Sanjoy (Author)
Brimnes, Niels (Author)


Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 83
Pages: 1--16


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Introduction to a special issue: Simultaneously Global and Local: Reassessing Smallpox Vaccination and Its Spread, 1789--1900
Language: English

The last two decades have seen a reawakening of scholarly interest in the history of smallpox prevention. Accounts of vaccination and others efforts at controlling smallpox have moved away from heroic narratives toward more nuanced and contextualized understandings. It is now accepted that several viruses traveled under the vaccine label from the outset, and it has been demonstrated that a variety of techniques were used to perform vaccination operations. The character of nineteenth century sea voyages that took the vaccine to distant territories has also been re-examined; sometimes the spread of the vaccine was caused by private networks and ad hoc decisions, while at other times it was the result of enterprises with close resemblances to contemporary centralized vaccination campaigns. Looking beyond Europe and North America we encounter a variety of state attitudes toward vaccination, ranging from concentrated efforts to spread the technique to efforts more uncertain and diluted. Although the reluctance to accept vaccination has been amply documented, recent studies emphasize this should not be attributed to simplistic dichotomies of modernity versus tradition or science versus culture; instead, instances of resistance are best studied as specific contextualized interactions. Indeed, factors like favorable geography, strong bureaucratic structures, and the absence of variolation seem to have helped the relatively smooth transfer of vaccination technologies. Perhaps most important, recent research encourages us to continue to study smallpox vaccination as a phenomenon that was simultaneously global and local.

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Includes Series Articles

Article Jannetta, Ann (2009) Jennerian Vaccination and the Creation of a National Public Health Agenda in Japan, 1850--1900. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 125). unapi

Article Bastos, Cristiana (2009) Borrowing, Adapting, and Learning the Practices of Smallpox: Notes from Colonial Goa. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 141). unapi

Article Minsky, Lauren (2009) Pursuing Protection from Disease: The Making of Smallpox Prophylactic Practice in Colonial Punjab. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 164). unapi

Article Rusnock, Andrea (2009) Catching Cowpox: The Early Spread of Smallpox Vaccination, 1798--1810. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 17). unapi

Article Bennett, Michael J. (2009) Smallpox and Cowpox under the Southern Cross: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1789 and the Advent of Vaccination in Colonial Australia. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 37). unapi

Article Mark, Catherine; Rigau-Pérez, José G. (2009) The World's First Immunization Campaign: The Spanish Smallpox Vaccine Expedition, 1803--1813. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 63). unapi

Article Jensen, Niklas Thode (2009) Safeguarding Slaves: Smallpox, Vaccination, and Governmental Health Policies among the Enslaved Population in the Danish West Indies, 1803--1848. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 95). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jannetta, Ann Bowman
Antonio Reguera Teba
Lee, Hyon Ju
Paolo Gerbaldo
Raffaele Domenici
Sordoni, Valentina
Concepts
Vaccines; vaccination
Smallpox
Medicine
Public health
Disease and diseases
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
20th century
17th century
Places
Italy
United States
Japan
India
Piedmont
Velha Goa (India)
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Hudson's Bay Company
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