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.
Author(s): Michael Bennett
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 438
Tags: Smallpox: Vaccination: History: 18th Century; Smallpox: Vaccination: History: 19th Century
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
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