The war against smallpox : Edward Jenner and the global spread of vaccination /
Michael Bennett.
Bok Engelsk 2020 Michael J. Bennett,· Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (xii, 424 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 May 2020).. - Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 A Tale of Two Diseases: Smallpox and Cowpox -- War on Smallpox and the World Arm-to-Arm -- The Rise of Smallpox -- The Experience of Smallpox: Fear and Fatalism -- Exotic Practices and Western Borrowings -- The Broader Disease Environment, Human and Animal -- The Uses of Inoculation -- 2 Fire with Fire: Smallpox Inoculation in the Eighteenth Century -- Inoculation in England: Survival and Revival -- The Inoculation Controversy in Europe -- The New Inoculation -- Princes and Bodies Politic -- Smallpox Prophylaxis outside Europe -- The Mirage of Eradication -- 3 Good Tidings from the Farm: Jenner and the Cowpox Discovery -- Jenner and the Discovery of Cowpox -- Cowpox in the Frame -- Establishing Cowpox Inoculation -- Jennerian Inoculation -- 4 National Mobilisation: Vaccination in Britain and Ireland -- Britain in Convulsion -- Medical Mobilisation -- The Cowpox Gospel: Parents, Preachers and Patrons -- Vaccination under Siege: Cowpox Controversies -- Vindications and Vexations -- 5 Vaccine Diaspora: Medical Networks in a World at War -- Doctors without Borders -- The Cowpox Odyssey -- The New Prophylaxis in the Heart of Europe -- Italian Fronts -- Prophylaxis and Plunder in the Levant -- The Internationalisation of Vaccination -- 6 Vaccine's Conquest of Napoleonic Europe -- The Long Flirtation with Smallpox Inoculation -- Vaccine en Voyage -- Fashion and Fear -- Aux Armes, Citoyens -- The Bonapartes and Vaccination -- The Advance and Retreat of Vaccination -- 7 The Guardian Pox in Northern Europe -- Smallpox Prophylaxis in Northern Europe -- Cowpox (Kühpocken) to Guardian Pox (Schutzpocken) -- Princes and Public Health -- Hearts and Minds -- Consolidation and Compulsion.. - 8 Across the Pyrenees: Early Vaccination in Spain and Portugal -- Smallpox in the Peninsula -- The Circulation of the 'Precious Pus' -- Embedding Vacunación in Spain -- Receptions and Rejections -- Empire and Philanthropy -- War and Wreckage -- 9 Romanovs and Vaktsinovs: Vaccination in the Russian Empire -- Smallpox Inoculation under Catherine the Great -- Vaccination by Ukase -- Trans-Siberian Vaccine -- Putting down Roots in Russia -- War and Peace -- 10 Passage through India: Vaccination in South Asia -- Smallpox and Inoculation in India -- Cowpox and Its Passage to India -- The Establishment of Vaccination in India and Ceylon -- Embedding and Extending Vaccination -- Imperious Vaccine -- Vaccine Hub in the East -- 11 'This New Inoculation Is No Sham!': Vaccination in North America -- Smallpox and Inoculation in North America -- Cowpox to Kinepox -- President Jefferson and the New Prophylaxis -- 'The City of Brotherly Love': Vaccine Philanthropy -- Testing Times -- Cowpox in Canada -- Democratic Vaccine -- 12 A New Pox for the New World: Vaccination in Latin America -- Massacres of the Innocents: Smallpox, Casual and Inoculated -- Seeding the Caribbean: Cowpox, Kinepox, Vaccine and Vacuna -- Arms around the Caribbean -- The New Prophylaxis in Central America and Mexico -- Vaccine across the Andes -- Brazil and the Southern Viceroyalties -- Imperial Beneficence and Creole Agency -- 13 Oceanic Vaccine: The World Encircled -- Smallpox in the Southern Latitudes -- Planting Cowpox in Cape Colony -- Cowpox in the Indian Ocean -- To the Ends of the Earth -- Arms around the World -- Worldwide but Skin Deep -- 14 The World Arm-to-Arm: Jenner and the Vaccination Revolution -- Global Receptions and Responses -- Salus Populi: Public Health and Compulsory Vaccination -- The Vaccination Revolution -- The End of an Age -- Select Bibliography -- Primary Sources.. - Unpublished -- Published -- Contemporary Periodicals -- Secondary Sources -- Published -- Unpublished -- Index.. - Michael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner's achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all corners of the globe. His focus is on the human story of the horrors of smallpox, the hopes invested in vaccination by medical men and parents, the children put arm-to-arm across the world, and the early challenges, successes and disappointments. He presents vaccination as a quiet revolution, genuinely emancipatory, but also the sharp end of growing state power. By the end of the war in 1815, millions of children had been vaccinated. The early success of the war against smallpox paved the way to further advances towards eradication.
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| ISBN | 1-139-01956-2
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