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

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

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Vaccines; vaccination Technology transfer Smallpox Medicine Disease and diseases 19th century Jenner, Edward

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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Article Bhattacharya, Sanjoy; Brimnes, Niels (2009) Introduction: Simultaneously Global and Local: Reassessing Smallpox Vaccination and Its Spread, 1789--1900. Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 1). unapi

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