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War Against Smallpox - Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination (Hardcover)
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War Against Smallpox - Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination (Hardcover)
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Michael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of
vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment
of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner's achievement in making
cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He
explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and
the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all
corners of the globe. His focus is on the human story of the
horrors of smallpox, the hopes invested in vaccination by medical
men and parents, the children put arm-to-arm across the world, and
the early challenges, successes and disappointments. He presents
vaccination as a quiet revolution, genuinely emancipatory, but also
the sharp end of growing state power. By the end of the war in
1815, millions of children had been vaccinated. The early success
of the war against smallpox paved the way to further advances
towards eradication.
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