Title War against smallpox : Edward Jenner and the global spread of vaccination / Michael Bennett, University of Tasmania

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 424 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 A Tale of Two Diseases: Smallpox and Cowpox -- War on Smallpox and the World Arm-to-Arm -- The Rise of Smallpox -- The Experience of Smallpox: Fear and Fatalism -- Exotic Practices and Western Borrowings -- The Broader Disease Environment, Human and Animal -- The Uses of Inoculation -- 2 Fire with Fire: Smallpox Inoculation in the Eighteenth Century -- Inoculation in England: Survival and Revival -- The Inoculation Controversy in Europe -- The New Inoculation -- Princes and Bodies Politic -- Smallpox Prophylaxis outside Europe -- The Mirage of Eradication -- 3 Good Tidings from the Farm: Jenner and the Cowpox Discovery -- Jenner and the Discovery of Cowpox -- Cowpox in the Frame -- Establishing Cowpox Inoculation -- Jennerian Inoculation -- 4 National Mobilisation: Vaccination in Britain and Ireland -- Britain in Convulsion -- Medical Mobilisation -- The Cowpox Gospel: Parents, Preachers and Patrons -- Vaccination under Siege: Cowpox Controversies -- Vindications and Vexations -- 5 Vaccine Diaspora: Medical Networks in a World at War -- Doctors without Borders -- The Cowpox Odyssey -- The New Prophylaxis in the Heart of Europe -- Italian Fronts -- Prophylaxis and Plunder in the Levant -- The Internationalisation of Vaccination -- 6 Vaccine's Conquest of Napoleonic Europe -- The Long Flirtation with Smallpox Inoculation -- Vaccine en Voyage -- Fashion and Fear -- Aux Armes, Citoyens -- The Bonapartes and Vaccination -- The Advance and Retreat of Vaccination -- 7 The Guardian Pox in Northern Europe -- Smallpox Prophylaxis in Northern Europe -- Cowpox (Kühpocken) to Guardian Pox (Schutzpocken) -- Princes and Public Health -- Hearts and Minds -- Consolidation and Compulsion 8 Across the Pyrenees: Early Vaccination in Spain and Portugal -- Smallpox in the Peninsula -- The Circulation of the 'Precious Pus' -- Embedding Vacunación in Spain -- Receptions and Rejections -- Empire and Philanthropy -- War and Wreckage -- 9 Romanovs and Vaktsinovs: Vaccination in the Russian Empire -- Smallpox Inoculation under Catherine the Great -- Vaccination by Ukase -- Trans-Siberian Vaccine -- Putting down Roots in Russia -- War and Peace -- 10 Passage through India: Vaccination in South Asia -- Smallpox and Inoculation in India -- Cowpox and Its Passage to India -- The Establishment of Vaccination in India and Ceylon -- Embedding and Extending Vaccination -- Imperious Vaccine -- Vaccine Hub in the East -- 11 'This New Inoculation Is No Sham!': Vaccination in North America -- Smallpox and Inoculation in North America -- Cowpox to Kinepox -- President Jefferson and the New Prophylaxis -- 'The City of Brotherly Love': Vaccine Philanthropy -- Testing Times -- Cowpox in Canada -- Democratic Vaccine -- 12 A New Pox for the New World: Vaccination in Latin America -- Massacres of the Innocents: Smallpox, Casual and Inoculated -- Seeding the Caribbean: Cowpox, Kinepox, Vaccine and Vacuna -- Arms around the Caribbean -- The New Prophylaxis in Central America and Mexico -- Vaccine across the Andes -- Brazil and the Southern Viceroyalties -- Imperial Beneficence and Creole Agency -- 13 Oceanic Vaccine: The World Encircled -- Smallpox in the Southern Latitudes -- Planting Cowpox in Cape Colony -- Cowpox in the Indian Ocean -- To the Ends of the Earth -- Arms around the World -- Worldwide but Skin Deep -- 14 The World Arm-to-Arm: Jenner and the Vaccination Revolution -- Global Receptions and Responses -- Salus Populi: Public Health and Compulsory Vaccination -- The Vaccination Revolution -- The End of an Age -- Select Bibliography -- Primary Sources Unpublished -- Published -- Contemporary Periodicals -- Secondary Sources -- Published -- Unpublished -- Index Summary "This is the global history of early vaccination. In the late eighteenth century, Jenner demonstrated that inoculating cowpox could be an effective and viable means of preventing smallpox and, by using humanised cowpox (vaccine) drawn from children subject to the procedure, hit on the means to make the disease sustainably and universally available. The book provides the first comprehensive account of the spread of vaccination through networks of global connection during the Napoleonic Wars. It is about the parents who gave cowpox a chance, the medical networks that put several million children around the world arm-to-arm, the successes and failures of early vaccination, and the measures that made mass immunisation feasible. It is the history of a remarkable mobilisation that transformed many lives, a revolution that was an emancipatory force, even as it came to represent the pointy end of growing state power, and the foundation of later advances in preventive medicine. By the coming of peace in 1815, the war against smallpox had begun to bring smallpox's empire within bounds"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 29, 2020) Subject Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823. SUBJECT Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823 Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823 fast Subject Smallpox -- Vaccination -- History -- 18th century Smallpox -- Vaccination -- History -- 19th century Physicians. Physicians Smallpox -- history Vaccination -- history physicians. Physicians Smallpox -- Vaccination SUBJECT England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019060151 ISBN 9781139019569 1139019562

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