Article ID: CBB001420472

Smallpox Eradication, Laboratory Visits, and a Touch of Tourism: Travel Notes of a Canadian Scientist in Brazil (2010)

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The paper presents and discusses the travel notes diary of Canadian scientist Robert J. Wilson when he visited Brazil in April 1967 during the Smallpox Eradication Programme run by the World Health Organisation. Wilson's report makes it possible to reflect on the smallpox eradication campaign in Brazil; on the Canada-Brazil cooperation to improve the quality of the smallpox vaccine; on his assessment by of scientists and Brazilian laboratories; on the effects of intersections between scientific activity and social and cultural activities; on the role played by specialist communities of experts role in international scientific cooperation projects; and on a Canadian traveller's concepts and prejudices about Brazil at the end of the 1960s.

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Authors & Contributors
Hochman, Gilberto
Jannetta, Ann Bowman
Báguena Cervellera, María José
Ballester, Rosa
Bennett, Michael J.
Carter, Jimmy
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Medical History
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Journal of Historical Geography
Nuova Rivista di Storia della Medicina
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
Ohio University Press
Penguin
Stanford University Press
University of California, Davis
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Concepts
Public health
Vaccines; vaccination
Smallpox
Disease and diseases
Epidemics
Medicine
People
Foege, William H.
Salk, Jonas Edward
McNamara, Robert Strange
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Brazil
Japan
Africa
Caribbean
India
Massachusetts (U.S.)
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
Hudson's Bay Company
Rockefeller Foundation
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
United Nations
World Bank
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