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The vaccination controversy : the rise, reign, and fall of compulsory vaccination for smallpox /
Smallpox was for several centuries one of the most deadly, most contagious and most feared of diseases, which goes some way towards explaining the controversy that surrounded nineteenth-century efforts to eradicate it. On one side were the authorities and medical men who were keen to put an end to t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool [England] :
Liverpool University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Smallpox was for several centuries one of the most deadly, most contagious and most feared of diseases, which goes some way towards explaining the controversy that surrounded nineteenth-century efforts to eradicate it. On one side were the authorities and medical men who were keen to put an end to the widespread ravages of smallpox by the most expedient means, while on the other side were ranged those parents who objected to the compulsory infliction on their children of a procedure that had no absolute guarantee of success, and that represented a gross invasion of private life. In this book. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (264 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781846314216 1846314216 9781846310867 1846310865 |