The antivaccine heresy : Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the troubled history of compulsory vaccination in the United States /

We celebrate vaccination today as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans regarded it uneasily, accepting it as a necessary evil forced upon them by their employers or the law. States had to make vaccination compulsory because of great popular distaste for it. Why? How did such a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walloch, Karen L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015.
Colección:Rochester studies in medical history.
Temas:
1900-1999
Vaccination > United States > History > 20th century.
Immunization of children > United States.
Vaccination of children > Complications.
Vaccination > history
Vaccination > legislation & jurisprudence
Refusal to Participate > history
Mandatory Programs > history
Vaccination > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Enfants > Immunisation > États-Unis.
Enfants > Vaccination > Complications et séquelles.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Immunization of children
Vaccination
Vaccination of children > Complications
United States
Massachusetts
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Vaccination in nineteenth-century America
  • 2. Problems with vaccination in the nineteenth century
  • 3. The 1901-2 smallpox epidemic in Boston and Cambridge
  • 4. The hazards of vaccination in 1901-2
  • 5. Massachusetts antivaccinationists
  • 6. Immanuel Pfeiffer versus the Boston Board of Health
  • 7. The 1902 campaign to amend the compulsory vaccination laws
  • 8. Criminal prosecution of the antivaccinationists
  • 9. Jacobson v. Massuchusetts
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A: Boston Health Department vaccinations, 1872-1900
  • Appendix B: Voting records for Samuel Durgin's vaccination bill before the Massachusetts State Senate
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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