The eradication of smallpox : Edward Jenner and the first and only eradication of a human infectious disease /


Hervé Bazin ; translated by Andrew and Glenise Morgan.
Bok Engelsk 2000 H. Bazin,· Electronic books
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San Diego, Calif. : : Academic Press, , c2000.
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1 online resource (xx, 246 p. ) : ill. ;
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Section 1. For those who have forgotten or never knew what smallpox was like. On the long struggle of man, before Jenner, to fight smallpox (1721-1798) -- section 2. The life and work of Jenner. The young Jenner (1749-1772) ; Jenner, naturalist and country surgeon (1772-1795) ; The myth becomes reality (1795-1798) ; Jenner's hard-won victory in England, his own country (1798-1823) ; The particular case of Napoleonic France (1798-1815) ; Vaccination spreads across Europe and the United States and then throughout the rest of the world (1798-1810) ; Honours and resentment for Jenner (1801-1823) -- section 3. The perfect ending to the story : the eradication of smallpox. Post-Jennerian vaccination (1823-1979) ; Smallpox vaccination : its value and its limitations (1798-1979) ; The anti-vaccination movements (1798-1979) ; The eradication of smallpox : Jenner's posthumous triumph (1959-1979) ; Jenner, vaccination and ethics (1796 to the present day) ; What should be done about the smallpox virus?
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Jenner, Edward : (NO-TrBIB)90553978
Physicians - Biography - England
Smallpox vaccine - History
Smallpox - Prevention History
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0120834758

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