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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walloch, Karen L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015.
Series:Rochester studies in medical history.
Subjects:
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
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