IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB001023395

Note-Taking and Data-Sharing: Edward Jenner and the Global Vaccination Network (2010)

Bennett, Michael J. (Author)

Intellectual History Review
Volume: 20
Pages: 415--432

Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe”
Language: English

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Vaccines; vaccination Field notes Public health Memory Scientific communities; interprofessional relations Communication within scientific contexts Smallpox Laboratory notebooks Vital statistics 18th century 19th century Jenner, Edward

The massive expansion of information from the seventeenth century placed considerable demands on mental capacity, and individual scholars responded with strategies of memory training and note-taking that prompted, relieved or replaced memory. It has been acknowledged how cowpox inoculation (vaccination) and smallpox inoculation (variolation) stimulated new forms of record keeping and the standardization and tabulation of medical data for scientific analysis and to inform public policy. Yet the key figure in these developments, Edward Jenner, while a careful observer who thought hard about the patterns he discerned, did not take good notes either from his reading or of his observations. He depended a great deal on his memory, especially a remarkable visual memory, consolidating his recollections and refining his thinking more through conversation and familiar letters than careful note-taking and writing. It was rather in the work of the practitioners who took up Jenners' writings, including some laymen and women, that we find the keeping of records of their vaccinations, in order to provide patient records and to report the results to friends, colleagues and a wider public.

...More

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001023395/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Antonio Reguera Teba; (2022)
Balmis expedition: The children who carried the smallpox vaccine to America (/isis/citation/CBB353887220/)

Article Raffaele Domenici; (2022)
Il primo Stato a decretare l’obbligatorietà vaccinale contro il vaiolo: Il Principato di Lucca e Piombino (1806) (/isis/citation/CBB665849462/)

Book Michael J. Bennett; (2020)
The War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination (/isis/citation/CBB765954016/)

Book Hoffman, Christoph; (2008)
Daten sichern. Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren der Aufzeichnung (/isis/citation/CBB000951095/)

Article Plett, Peter C.; (2006)
Peter Plett und die übrigen Entdecker der Kuhpockenimpfung vor Edward Jenner (/isis/citation/CBB000700760/)

Chapter Cristina Munno; (2018)
La lotta al vaiolo e le pratiche antivaiolose nel Settecento e nell’Ottocento veneto (/isis/citation/CBB610612636/)

Article Hackett, Paul; (2004)
Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (/isis/citation/CBB000630233/)

Article Bennett, Michael; (2008)
Jenner's Ladies: Women and Vaccination against Smallpox in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (/isis/citation/CBB001030395/)

Thesis Hyon Ju Lee; (2016)
Dr. John Jeffries (1745-1819) and the Uncertain Practices of Smallpox Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB734927243/)

Article Bhattacharya, Sanjoy; Brimnes, Niels; (2009)
Introduction: Simultaneously Global and Local: Reassessing Smallpox Vaccination and Its Spread, 1789--1900 (/isis/citation/CBB000932118/)

Book Valentina Sordoni; (2020)
«L'immortale britanno». Monaldo Leopardi e il vaccino contro il vaiolo (/isis/citation/CBB317139311/)

Article Serge Boarini; (2018)
L’inoculation de la petite vérole à Lyon: De la condamnation à l’acceptation (1779-1811) (/isis/citation/CBB229117772/)

Book Paolo Gerbaldo; (2023)
Arte salutare e inoculazione antivaiolosa. Il medico Vincenzo Sacchetti nel Piemonte napoleonico e sabaudo (/isis/citation/CBB270333362/)

Book Jones, Greta; Malcolm, Elizabeth; (1999)
Medicine, disease, and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940 (/isis/citation/CBB000110599/)

Article Rusnock, Andrea; (2009)
Catching Cowpox: The Early Spread of Smallpox Vaccination, 1798--1810 (/isis/citation/CBB000932119/)

Chapter Marks, Harry M.; (2005)
When the State Counts Lives: Eighteenth-Century Quarrels over Inoculation (/isis/citation/CBB000772029/)

Thesis James, Tricia; (2007)
Rural Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Infant Mortality in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, 1879--1910: A Vaccination Register Study (/isis/citation/CBB001562755/)

Article Helen Esfandiary; (2022)
‘A thankless enterprise’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's campaign to establish medical unorthodoxy amongst her female network (/isis/citation/CBB759886087/)

Book Porras Gallo, María Isabel; María Isabel / Báguena Cervellera, María José / Ayarzagüena Sanz, Mariano / Martín Espinosa, Noelia María Porras Gallo; Ayarzagüena Sanz, Mariano; Noelia María Martín Espinosa; (2016)
La erradicación y el control de las enfermedades infecciosas (/isis/citation/CBB703301554/)

Article Victoria N. Meyer; (2022)
Innovations from the Levant: smallpox inoculation and perceptions of scientific medicine (/isis/citation/CBB300328741/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}