War Against Smallpox - Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination

A history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, when millions of children were saved from smallpox.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Bennett, Michael (University of Tasmania) Bennett, Michael John Bennett, Michael John (University of Tasmania) Bennett
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780521765671
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76567-1
• No. of pages: 434
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, General & world history, History of Medicine, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Science, Social and cultural history, General and world history