Barbara Heifferon

America's First Vaccination (eBook, PDF)

The Controversy of 1721-22

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the response to a new scientific advance in medicine three hundred years ago to understand how this discourse revealed religious, racial, anti-intellectual, and other ideologies the first time documented vaccinations were introduced in America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000842302
• Artikelnr.: 67269497

Autorenporträt

Barbara Sherman Heifferon initiated a sub-field in the rhetoric of health of medicine (RHM) in the U.S. This is her sixth book. Her love of medicine began as a cardio-pulmonary technician and continued to a longer career in RHM, technical and scientific writing, pandemics, and writing studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Contextualizing the Smallpox Inoculation of 1721-1722 2. The Religious and Legal Frames of the Debate: Who Controls the Body? 3. Echoes of the Witchcraft Trials: The Power of the "Invisible" 4. Class and Education in the "Academicus Dialogues
" Other Commentary
and Silence Dogood 5. The Discrediting of African
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and Women's Experience 6. Then and Now