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Auteur(s) : Walloch, Karen L.
Titre(s) : The antivaccine heresy [Texte imprimé] : Jacobson v. Massachusetts and the troubled history of compulsory vaccination in the United States / Karen L. Walloch
Publication : Rochester : University of Rochester press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol.(X-339 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Rochester studies in medical history
Lien à la collection : Rochester studies in medical history
Comprend : Introduction ; Vaccination in nineteenth-century America ; Problems with vaccination
in the nineteenth century ; The 1901-2 Smallpox epidemic in Boston and Cambridge
; The hazards of vaccination in 1901-2 ; Massachusetts antivaccinationists ; Immanuel
Pfeiffer versus the Boston Board of Health ; The 1902 campaign to amend the compulsory
vaccination laws ; Criminal prosecution of the antivaccinationists ; Jacobson v.
Massuchusetts ; Conclusion ; Appendix A: Boston Health Department Vaccinations,
1872-1900 ; Appendix B: Voting Records for Samuel Durgin's Vaccination Bill before
the Massachusetts State Senate.
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
We celebrate vaccination today as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century
Americans regarded it uneasily, accepting it as a necessary evil forced upon them
by their employers or the law. States had to make vaccination compulsory because of
great popular distaste for it. Why? How did such a promising innovation come to induce
such anxiety? This book explores the history of vaccine development, revealing that,
at the end of the nineteenth century, many Americans had good reason to fear vaccination.
A century of tinkering had created vaccines that did not live up to claims made for
their safety and effectiveness. They induced pain, disability, and grim or even fatal
infections. Parents hesitated to vaccinate their children, and health departments
had to rely on coercion and sometimes even force to vaccinate a reluctant populace.
Antivaccination societies formed to oppose compulsory laws, ultimately arriving at
the United States Supreme Court when it upheld these laws in a landmark decision,
Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). Antivaccinationists did not give up, however, creating
a legacy of doubt about vaccination that still resounds on the American political
landscape.--Description from amazon.com
Sujet(s) : Vaccination -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Immunisation des enfants -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
614.470 973 (23e éd.) = Immunisation (médecine publique préventive) - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781580465373. - ISBN 1580465374 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44490868d
Notice n° :
FRBNF44490868
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