Michael Bennett (University of Tasmania)

War Against Smallpox

Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael Bennett offers the first global history of the spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, focusing on the experience of smallpox, the hopes invested in vaccination by doctors and parents in the early nineteenth century, and the children put arm-to-arm in the war against smallpox.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780521147880
• ISBN-10: 0521147883
• Artikelnr.: 58532306

Autorenporträt

Michael Bennett is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tasmania. He is the author of four books on late medieval England and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. A Tale of Two Diseases: Smallpox and Cowpox
2. Fire with Fire: Smallpox Inoculation in the Eighteenth Century
3. Good Tidings from the Farm: Jenner and the Cowpox Discovery
4. National Mobilisation: Vaccination in Britain and Ireland
5. Vaccine Diaspora: Medical Networks in a World at War
6. The Vaccine's Conquest of Napoleonic Europe
7. The Guardian Pox in Northern Europe
8. Across the Pyrenees: Vaccination in Spain and Portugal
9. Romanovs and Vaktsinovs: Vaccination in the Russian Empire
10. Passage through India: Vaccinaton in South Asia
11. 'This New Inoculation Is No Sham!' Vaccination in North America
12. A New Pox for the New World. Vaccination in Latin America
13. Oceanic Vaccine: The World Encircled
14. The World Arm-to-Arm: Jenner and the Vaccination Revolution
Select Bibliography
Index.