Book ID: CBB765954016

The War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination (2020)

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Bennett, Michael J. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 456
Language: English

"This is the global history of early vaccination. In the late eighteenth century, Jenner demonstrated that inoculating cowpox could be an effective and viable means of preventing smallpox and, by using humanised cowpox (vaccine) drawn from children subject to the procedure, hit on the means to make the disease sustainably and universally available. The book provides the first comprehensive account of the spread of vaccination through networks of global connection during the Napoleonic Wars. It is about the parents who gave cowpox a chance, the medical networks that put several million children around the world arm-to-arm, the successes and failures of early vaccination, and the measures that made mass immunisation feasible. It is the history of a remarkable mobilisation that transformed many lives, a revolution that was an emancipatory force, even as it came to represent the pointy end of growing state power, and the foundation of later advances in preventive medicine. By the coming of peace in 1815, the war against smallpox had begun to bring smallpox's empire within bounds"--

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Authors & Contributors
Bennett, Michael J.
Antonio Reguera Teba
Helen Esfandiary
Gelati, Giacomo
Paolo Gerbaldo
Serge Boarini
Concepts
Vaccines; vaccination
Smallpox
Medicine
Public health
Inoculation
Medicine and society
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
England
Italy
Great Britain
Piedmont
Levant and Near East
Lyon (France)
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Royal Society of London
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