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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williamson, Stanley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2007.
Temas:
1700-1799
Smallpox > Vaccination > Great Britain > History.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Disease Outbreaks > history
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
Mass Vaccination > history
Smallpox Vaccine > history
Variole > Vaccination > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Medicine
Smallpox > Vaccination
United Kingdom
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I
  • The Road to Compulsion; 1: The Byzantine Operation; 2: The Small Pockes; 3: The Engrafted Distemper; 4: The Language of Figures; 5: The Suttonian System; 6: The Great Benefactor; 7: The Speckled Monster; 8: The Three Bashaws; 9: A Competent and Energetic Officer; 10: Formidable Men; 11: The Present Non-System; 12: Toties Quoties; 13: Crotchety People; Part II
  • The Reign of Compulsion; 14: A Loathsome Virus; 15: A Cruel and Degrading Imposture; 16: Ten Shillings or Seven Days; 17: Death by Non-Vaccination; 18: The Great Pox.

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