Title: War against smallpox : Edward Jenner and the global spread of vaccination / Michael Bennett, University of Tasmania. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bennett, Michael, 1949- author. First published 2020 Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd, Padstow Cornwall A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. Information on this title: DOI: 10.1017/9781139019569 © Michael Bennett 2020 This publication is in copyright. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia 314–321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06–04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. War Against Smallpox Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination Michael Bennett 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. michael bennett is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tasmania.
The early success of the war against smallpox paved the way to further advances towards eradication. By the end of the war in 1815, millions of children had been vaccinated. He presents vaccination as a quiet revolution, genuinely emancipatory, but also the sharp end of growing state power. 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 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. 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. Salus Populi: Public Health and Compulsory Vaccination The New Prophylaxis in Central America and Mexicoġ4 The World Arm-to-Arm: Jenner and the Vaccination Revolution Seeding the Caribbean: Cowpox, Kinepox, Vaccine and Vacuna Massacres of the Innocents: Smallpox, Casual and Inoculated
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