Article ID: CBB000932119

Catching Cowpox: The Early Spread of Smallpox Vaccination, 1798--1810 (2009)

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Rusnock, Andrea (Author)


Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 83
Pages: 17--36


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

The introduction of smallpox vaccination after the publication of Edward Jenner's An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of Variolae Vaccinae depended on the spread of cowpox, a relatively rare disease. How Europeans and their colonial allies transported and maintained cowpox in new environments is a social and technological story involving a broad range of individuals from physicians and surgeons to philanthropists, ministers, and colonial administrators. Putting cowpox in new places also meant developing new techniques and organizations. This essay focuses on the actual practices of vaccination and their environmental contexts in order to illuminate the dynamic exchanges of materials, images, and ideas that made the spread of vaccination possible.

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Authors & Contributors
Bennett, Michael J.
Jannetta, Ann Bowman
Antonio Reguera Teba
Raffaele Domenici
Willrich, Michael
Rigau-Pérez, José Gabriel
Concepts
Vaccines; vaccination
Smallpox
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Public health
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
17th century
Places
Japan
India
Velha Goa (India)
Myanmar (Burma)
West Indies
United States
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
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